Oh there is no question that the herd has been drastically reduced and I am not saying that it was right, infact I'm pretty darned upset about it myself. I was just trying to stress the fact that there are still deer out there, just not as many. I'm hoping that the numbers increase for next year, because I don't know very many people that shot a deer this year. Maybe next year we'll see more............hopefully. I don't care what they (dr alt & the pgc) this is not healthy. I don't know about your area, but I also noticed that the squirrell population is nil where I live. I've seen a total of two grey squirrels since small game started.