Another reason they support Alt's plan is because they have no idea what Alt's plan will do. Nowhere in any of the articles do you see that the goal os to reduce the statewide herd to 13 DPSM. Nowhere do you see that that if the plan succeeds the buck harvest will drop to below 100K. Nowhere do you see that our OWDD assign no habitat value to farmland or any other non-forested habitat The other professionals all agree with balancing the herd with the habitat ,but that is not what the plan does. It attempts to balance the herd with only the forested habitat and ignores everything else so the plan is a classic example of gross mismanagement.

Would you prefer that we harvested 4, 2.5+ buck instead of 4 BB? According to the dominant breeding theory you don't want 1.5 buck doing the breeding because you want the dominant 2.5+ buck doing the breeding. So those 6 BB we harvested would have contributed to the OW population and added to the breeding competition,but wouldn't have contributed to the breeding. Therefore, how did the harvest of those BB harm the health of the herd?

The hunters that harvested the 62 K ,2.5+ buck did more to harm the health of the herd than the 68K hunters who shot BB, since they prevented those 2.5+ buck from becoming truly dominant 3.5+ buck. So while shooting BB definitely reduces the number of 1.5 buck, it does nothing to harm the health of the herd compared to increasing the harvest rate of 2.5+ buck, which is what AR has done.