Quality Whitetails and segment on PA Management
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,262
RE: Quality Whitetails and segment on PA Management
This study is about doe mortality and dispearsment not bucks.In order tostabilize a growing population,you need to harvest about 30% of the does each year.I live in 2G and people are still killing does as fast as they can buy the tags.2G's antlerless allocations sell out in one day and the dmap's for Moshannon state forest sell out in 2 days.Guys aren't letting up on the doe kill.What this study shows is that hunters are not as big of a limiting factor on the deer population as one thinks.You shouldread the entire study.It shows that if a doe's core range doesn't fall within a 1/4 mile of a road,her chances of getting killed by a hunter are slim.This area has very very poor habitat.Poor habitat will limit deer numbers more than hunters.
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 3,879
RE: Quality Whitetails and segment on PA Management
here is the link BT,read it and weep.
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/v...Q=173624#21010
Antlerless harvests and total harvests greater than recruitment definitely reduced the herd in the NC counties. That is the most basic concept of deer management and why you would try to deny it makes no sense to me.
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/v...Q=173624#21010
Antlerless harvests and total harvests greater than recruitment definitely reduced the herd in the NC counties. That is the most basic concept of deer management and why you would try to deny it makes no sense to me.
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 3,879
RE: Quality Whitetails and segment on PA Management
ORIGINAL: DougE
Why isn't the herd growing at a fast rate when only 8% of the does are being killed by hunters.
Why isn't the herd growing at a fast rate when only 8% of the does are being killed by hunters.
#19
RE: Quality Whitetails and segment on PA Management
ORIGINAL: bluebird2
here is the link BT,read it and weep.
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?A=523&Q=173624#21010
Antlerless harvests and total harvests greater than recruitment definitely reduced the herd in the NC counties. That is the most basic concept of deer management and why you would try to deny it makes no sense to me.
here is the link BT,read it and weep.
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?A=523&Q=173624#21010
Antlerless harvests and total harvests greater than recruitment definitely reduced the herd in the NC counties. That is the most basic concept of deer management and why you would try to deny it makes no sense to me.
Deer numbers areless where theyneeded to be less. Much of the crash in numbershas been a result of the habitat crash. The habitat is just starting torebound. Deer numbers have stabilzed. You have no credible evidence that harvest has exceeded recruitment.
Your relentless posting of misinformation, half truths, embellishments and statements out of context got you banned several times before.
Haven't you learned anything yet?
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 3,879
RE: Quality Whitetails and segment on PA Management
Deer numbers are less where they needed to be less. Much of the crash in numbers has been a result of the habitat crash. The habitat is just starting to rebound. Deer numbers have stabilzed. You have no credible evidence that harvest has exceeded recruitment.
Maybe you should explain why buck harvests decreased by over 45% from 2001 to 2007 ,if total harvests prior to 2007 didn't exceed recruitment?