Our current plan is closing more access to private land and farms. with deer numbers dropping, my brother in law has for the first time in hisory now closed the farm and has told the hunters not to come back for 2005 because there are not enough deer to support the family to hunt and outsiders also. A smaller herd means more competition for the remaining resource, and private landowners in my area are shutting the door. The PGC will not change that with 12dpsm (from out level today of 25), it will only get worse.


Buy and burn does not work. While you do without, the guys who drive in a park and hunt will take the excess does. You don't have fenced deer they go where they want. you protect them on your property, your freezer goes empty, but the neighbors harvest away and you suffer no one else.

You have to do a lot more than buy and burn if you are not happy today. You better start writing legislators, tell sportsmans clubs you won't support them unless they support you and your hunting. Writing commissioners is pretty much a waste. They could care less what you want. They are political appointees, if they do not play the herd reduction game they get removed and someone else is appointed in thier place.

The answer is to not buy a license at all, not just the doe tag. Lip service only goes so far, then its $$$$$ that talk.