Based on reports on another MB the anterless allocations for 2005 were set at 879 K tags. That ,IMHO is an insignificant reduction when one considers that the buck harvest has decreased by 39% in just 3 years.

Anterless allocations for 2005-06 hunting season.
...unit.......05-06...............04-05......03-04
WMU 1A, 40,000 [-17%] (48,000) (44,000);

WMU 1B, 27,000 [-18%] (33,000) (37,000);

WMU 2A, 55,000 [0%] (55,000) (45,000);

WMU 2B, 68,000 [0%] (68,000) (45,000);

WMU 2C, 53,000 [-29%] (75,000) (65,000);

WMU 2D; 56,000 [-3%] (58,000) (58,000);

WMU 2E, 21,000 [-9%] (23,000) (29,000);

WMU 2F, 30,000 [-32%] (44,000) (44,000);

WMU 2G, 29,000 [-44%] (52,000) (52,000);

WMU 3A, 27,000 [-16%] (32,000) (28,000);

WMU 3B, 41,000 [-15%] (48,000) (45,000);

WMU 3C, 32,000 [-14%] (37,000) (40,000);

WMU 3D, 38,000 [-24%] (50,000) (50,000);

WMU 4A, 35,000 [-19%] (43,000) (37,000);

WMU 4B, 35,000 [-29%] (49,000) (38,000);

WMU 4C, 39,000 [-11%] (44,000) (46,000);

WMU 4D, 40,000 [-27%] (55,000) (58,000);

WMU 4E, 38,000 [0%] (38,000) (38,000);

WMU 5A, 28,000 [-13%] (32,000) (28,000);

WMU 5B, 56,000 [-13%] (64,000) (60,000);

WMU 5C, 71,000 [0%] (71,000) (66,000);

WMU 5D, 20,000 [0%] (20,000) (20,000)

T
Very detailed and informative info. I assume this came straight from the horses mouth.

Thanks T!

Looks like some common sense has prevailed. Substantial reductions in the NC WMU's and staying the course in the SW.

Now, we need to work on smaller WMU's

From another message board maybe?

im really glad that the tags were decreased, at least they are starting to listen... i see my wmu was decreased 27% which is a good start..

Before you get to happy ,ask yourself how much the her has been reduced inthe WMU you hunt?

im not jumping w/ joy or anything, i know they need to do a lot more.. but its a start.. and now we as hunters have to do a part also and use our tags wisely...

I'm impressed with the cuts in 2G,it's needed.
But now I have a question maybe somebody can answer.There's alot of state forest land in that WMU.How many more DMAP tags will be added to make up for these cuts?

if hunters use the tags that are allocated,they will reduce the herd even more, since as the OWDd is reduced .even lower harvests will continue to reduce the OWD D and future haresvts