Elk

Either way the buttons are being harvested each and every year. Why not count them as bucks in the harvest quota instead of anterless deer?

It skews the buck to doe ratio big time when you look at the yearly harvest data.

For example say 100,000 antlered bucks were harvested along with 200,000 antlerless deer for the season. It throws it out of perspective.

If they don't want to count buttons as antlerd deer than thats OK but they should note how many of those 200,000 were in fact buttons or antlerless bucks IMO.