I challenge you to find one quote from Alt where he said harvests would decline. What he said was ,we would have more and bigger buck than ever before in PA, hunting would be better than ever, AR would double the number of 8 + pt buck and the buck harvests would return to normal after 1 year of AR.

It would be obvious to anyone with the intellectual capacity of a high school senior, that reducing the herd means that one has to harvest more deer than are recruited into the herd each year. That means that the anterless harvest will remoan high for several years until enough adult doe are removed to reach the OWDD goal of 12 DPSM. Since in 2003 we had 1.1M OWD , that means we have to harvest an additional 550K anterless deer ,above the yearly net fawn recruitment in order to reach the goal, That is why the anterless harvest and total harvest will remain high for several more years .But I know that is beyond your level of comprehension and you will reject it because it simply doesn't agree with what you think should happen.