Gee! You mean the DNR is trying to manipulate facts to cover up their own bureaucratic failings?? Well, knock me over with a feather!
BTW, to all of you who kept telling us what a wonderful job these dropouts from the DMV do...
Wisconsin Outdoor News, Feb 11th
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Bureau of Wildlife director Tom Hauge opened the hearing by saying the DNR's 2001 estimate was off a bit. Before the 2001 season, the statewide herd was estimated at 1.65 million. Using sex, age,l and kill numbers (part of the Sex-Age-Kill formula) after the season, biologist came up with an estimate of 1.53 million.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote>
Now let me see if I got this right: the DNR, which has insisted that the SAK method is the Golden Rule of deer population measurement, actually admitted that they were off? And the admission...though still way off...is that they overestimated the population by something like 9%? (BTW, before all of you defenders of these Tom Ament clones start chiming in that 9% is such a small variance, let me remind you that such a difference is equal to TWICE the amount of deer harvested during the 2000 T-zone hunts!)
Hmmm! Maybe we have some progress! Now if they would just admit that they are full of crap on the 40-some T-zones that they insist we still need, then we can say we have some progress.
BTW, never did get a response on my letter to Mr. Mytton regarding his seeming difficulty in reconciling the low deer harvest this year with his faulty contention about other "brown" seasons having similar results. Of course, I'm sure he and his buddies are busy convering their a$$es over the fact that they now KNOW they are WAY off in thier deer estimates.
Edited by - TJD on 02/24/2002 00:16:05