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<blockquote data-quote="( deleted account )" data-source="post: 227360" data-attributes="member: 5993">I agree that harvest rates could be tracked a bit better than the current well after the season voluntary mail survey. Are you talking mandatory reporting?&nbsp; I’d predict lots of complaints.&nbsp; The G&amp;F uses other things other than harvest rates to indirectly estimate population trends, insurance claims, Rancher deprivation complaints, on the ground observation from game wardens, landowners, etc.&nbsp; And some aviation based mullet counting.&nbsp; i always hear we need better ways to count the deer numbers, but like it or not anything developed so far is expensive and has its own built in inaccuracies. In the future&nbsp; some smart person may develop automatic cheap drone methods. yes, I was rambling around my hunting areas yesterday and lost count of the number of deer seen, mostly does and spotted fawns, but several buckstotards evening&nbsp; too. Yet there has been no increase in tag numbers.&nbsp; But deer numbers are spotty - lots where there is habitat, fewer where it is limited.&nbsp; Counting will always be an approximation that a lot of bar school biologists might rightly or wrongly disagree with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="( deleted account ), post: 227360, member: 5993"] I agree that harvest rates could be tracked a bit better than the current well after the season voluntary mail survey. Are you talking mandatory reporting? I’d predict lots of complaints. The G&F uses other things other than harvest rates to indirectly estimate population trends, insurance claims, Rancher deprivation complaints, on the ground observation from game wardens, landowners, etc. And some aviation based mullet counting. i always hear we need better ways to count the deer numbers, but like it or not anything developed so far is expensive and has its own built in inaccuracies. In the future some smart person may develop automatic cheap drone methods. yes, I was rambling around my hunting areas yesterday and lost count of the number of deer seen, mostly does and spotted fawns, but several buckstotards evening too. Yet there has been no increase in tag numbers. But deer numbers are spotty - lots where there is habitat, fewer where it is limited. Counting will always be an approximation that a lot of bar school biologists might rightly or wrongly disagree with. [/QUOTE]

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