I joined the QDMA way back in 1995, when they only had about 5,000 members. It eventually grew to 60,000+ members. I wrote for their magazine. I donated my time to give many, many presentations at QDMA meetings/banquets. They were an organization that promoted the passing of yearling and some 2 1/2 year-old bucks to advance the buck age structure, as well as the adequate harvest of does to control population density. Anyone can do that on their hunting property. They also provided good info on fairly simple habitat management techniques. Then all of sudden they began talking about passing up all bucks below maturity. Then they started talking about waiting until bucks are 5 1/2. Habitat management advice became geared to the big, BIG landowners. In my opinion, the big change occurred when they replaced the Board of Directors - that was originally made up of wildlife biologists - with owners of big hunting equipment companies. Once trophy hunter money became the focus of the organization (my opinion), I no longer had an interest in the organization. Hunters left the organization in droves.