You guys do know that out of PA's 1,000,000 hunters in 2004 that at least 50% will be gone in 20-30 years from old age and recruitment won't replace nearly that many. If you want to keep your 1.5 mil deer now who do you think is going to manage them in 20-30 years? It's not going to be the 300,000-500,000 hunters that are left. Dr Alt and the game commission finally started to manage the deer biologically instead of politically(what the hunters want) to deal with one crisis, habitat damage. Then the second crisis which will come in the future, loss of hunters, also is being addressed now. The PGC is using the hunters now to get a handle on this herd while they can and that gives them 20 years to come up with a new way to control deer numbers. Hunters and hunting are dying out but the deer are still going to be there. Maybe you don't see as many deer while hunting now, but PA hunters should be praising Alt and the PGC for being forward thinkers not greedy hunters.