RE: Alt on Penna. Outdoor Life
While most hunters agree that the herd should be reduced where the other guy hunts, how many hunters in in 5 C think the herd should be reduced from 19 DPSM to 6 DPSM, or from 17 DPSM in 5 B to 5 DPSM, or from 26 DPSM to 9 DPSM in 1 A , or from 21 DPSM in 5A to 8 DPSM?
There is no doubt that the majority of hunters want the herd to be managed at sustainable population levels , but very few hunters would agree that there is a need to decimate the herd in the areas with the best habitat.
BTW, if herd reduction was Alt's primary goal ,why hasn't he reduced the herd by 5% /yr. as he said he would do? Why did the buck harvest decrease by30% ,but the OW herd increased by 20%? How , does adding more OW buck to an over browsed habitat , help balanace the herd with the habitat?