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And here's my prediction as to what we will find: The audit will come back with typically watered down language, saying something like "SAK can be an effective tool in measuring the population of Whitetailed Deer", and then we will hear how it need to be "fine tuned to take into account the unique nature of the herd", or some such pablum. But I doubt it will EVER say anything about it underestimating population...but it will say that it needs to be significantly modified to be accurate.
It is my thought that EAB needs to adjusted to factor in Wolves in Northern Wisconsin.
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Somehow I doubt you could count on each of the 50,000 hunters to shoot two deer apiece anyway.
BUT IT'S EVEN HARDER TO SET A NEW HARVEST RECORD WHEN THERE AREN'T AS MANY DEER AS THE DNR ESTIMATED!!!!
At least seven Northeast Region units - 80B, 68A, 67B, 66, 65B, 63A and 62B - had confirmed, registered deer KILLS of 32 to 40 per square mile of deer range last year! That's more dead deer than most barstool DNR-bashers would say have been running around LIVE prior to the hunt.
9/10 earn-a-buck units for '05, eight of them repeats (only 64M is new) and all in the Northeast Region. A total of 51 units are slated for Zone T.