Every ones opinion counts but you made a statement there that "The PGC gets its revenue from license sales." Maybe you didn't mean it to come out that way but it is not an accurate statement.

The PGC only derives a portion of its 68million dollar budget from license sales. $37 million last year. That means $31 million came from other sources..... Nearly half of the PGC budget is NOT license dependent.
A few hundred thousand hunters can dig in thier heels and not purchasea doe tag but it will not make a big difference in the 68million+ dollar budget next year. That was why I mentioned earlier that the PGC has already prepared for less license dollars by creating the "friends of wildlife foundation" where large corporations and private anonymous donors can back fill for any lost revenue. And because they donated it, THEY get to say how it is spent. Most are nonhunters, and will not be sypathetic to spending it on pheasant stocking and bear habitat....

And secondly you made another factual error which really jumps out.
"Therefore, the number of anterless licenses remains relatively the same year after year. " ........????

No, they do not remain relativley the same. Just 4 years ago we were only issuing around 690,000 doe tags. Now we are issuing 1,040,000+ doe tags. This is our third year of over one million doe tags, and we have opened up the use of those tags into large WMU's!!!! That makes the tags that are there that much more effective. Exponentially more.

No, we have have had huge increases since 1998 in doe tags numbers.

On those two issues, doe tag #'s and revenue of license sales, you have not been factual.

On the issue of shooting does in bow or in rifle, matters not to the fawns when you kill thier mother. The does drop thier fawns in June, and killing them in Oct or dec makes no difference to recruitment.

it may save six weeks of browse to kill them in bow season, but it has no effect on fawns to harvest does early.