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Please say it.I have a lot to say about these deer management plans. Anyone else want to say it?
I guess my question would be how long do you need a lower population when dealing with CWD? If it's short term, it makes way more sense to kill a lot of bucks. If you are looking at a 10 year time span then yes I agree issue more doe tags.This new trend of lowering the buck:doe ratio as a means of “combating CWD” annoys the hell out of me. Surely there has to be another way. Like, oh I dunno, increase doe tags would be one option. There are more ancient does walking around than 5+ year old bucks. Obviously you’d have to balance it with overall population level, but surely there are other options than destroying the quality of these hunts.
How about we just kill all the mature bucks out of the unit? Then draw odds will increase because people like me will have no interest in hunting there. Win-win!
They had the same management style in Morgan county and out in Sterling. Decimated the herd and didn't stop cwd, herd still hasn't come back. And now whitetails are encroaching on mule deer territory. Just brilliant.Here is the problem. From page 31 of the proposed Book Cliffs deer plan, moderate decrease in buck:doe ratio: “The increase in buck licenses will significantly reduce the number of high quality individuals harvested.” Then in the adjacent table it notes this moderate decrease in buck:doe ratio option “may decrease” disease prevalence. So let’s for sure destroy the quality of these deer units, and maybe decrease CWD. How is this even an option?
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An this is what I've always asked myself, what is the problem with people having an issue with harvesting does? Is there a taboo with it stemming back when deer were almost extinct?Like, oh I dunno, increase doe tags would be one option. There are more ancient does walking around than 5+ year old bucks.