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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5860411" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>In my personal/professional opinion, making large-scale recommendations (even condemnations of hunters as this article does) based SOLEY on harvest data is VERY bad policy and science. Harvests recommendations should be made from assessment of local conditions. I'm not saying the article is completely wrong. Maybe some areas do need more does harvested. But making that assumption/demand based only off harvest numbers is a mistake.</p><p></p><p>In fact, the article states this, which I agree with:</p><p></p><p>"<em>Not every deer hunter needs to harvest does. It's a site-specific determination. Where deer herds are below the carrying capacity of the habitat, doe harvest should be minimized or avoided</em>."</p><p></p><p>Sound advice. But the next sentence is ludicrous to the extreme:</p><p></p><p>"<em>Nationally, very few deer hunters face that situation</em>."</p><p></p><p>Really? "Few" hunters face the situation of deer herds below carrying capacity? Based on what data? Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, I saw widespread deer herds at and above carrying capacity all across the Southeast. I know <strong>exactly what that looks like</strong> because I documented and studied these herds in great detail. Now, I do not see overpopulated herds except in pockets. To unequivocally state "few hunters" face herds below carrying capacity is not only false on its face, but undeniably an uneducated statement made without any site-specific data.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5860411, member: 17"] In my personal/professional opinion, making large-scale recommendations (even condemnations of hunters as this article does) based SOLEY on harvest data is VERY bad policy and science. Harvests recommendations should be made from assessment of local conditions. I'm not saying the article is completely wrong. Maybe some areas do need more does harvested. But making that assumption/demand based only off harvest numbers is a mistake. In fact, the article states this, which I agree with: "[I]Not every deer hunter needs to harvest does. It's a site-specific determination. Where deer herds are below the carrying capacity of the habitat, doe harvest should be minimized or avoided[/I]." Sound advice. But the next sentence is ludicrous to the extreme: "[I]Nationally, very few deer hunters face that situation[/I]." Really? "Few" hunters face the situation of deer herds below carrying capacity? Based on what data? Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, I saw widespread deer herds at and above carrying capacity all across the Southeast. I know [B]exactly what that looks like[/B] because I documented and studied these herds in great detail. Now, I do not see overpopulated herds except in pockets. To unequivocally state "few hunters" face herds below carrying capacity is not only false on its face, but undeniably an uneducated statement made without any site-specific data. [/QUOTE]
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