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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Toby2" data-source="post: 42551" data-attributes="member: 290">I agree 100%.  Deer hunting was always the traditional family outing type thing.  Kids got out of school early on Fridays so they could go with and experience the fun of deer hunting.  I remember when I was a little kid and got to go with my parents deer hunting, seemed like they usually got a tag every year unless it was a buck tag.  It was fun and exciting to me.  I also agree in regard to the counting process for deer.  It is not very likely that one would be able to count deer in the same mannerisms that one would get an idea about waterfowl or pheasants.  Deer are typically most active in the early morning hours and the last hour of daylight, which in the summer time is well after the 5PM clock out time.  For instance, my hunting unit is 2G, not a very big unit at all.  From my own personal scouting of this area since March we have seen double the deer from 3 years ago.  Heck, just a 5 by 5 mile square drive from the farm we have been seeing 31 deer on a constant basis.  Last year it was 19, the year before it was 17, and the year before that it was 15.  We have been keeping track and documenting.  Last year the tag number for our unit was 400.  This year they dropped it to 300.  I honestly believe that if scouting by the Game and Fish were to be done in the later evening hours for several weeks the numbers would show a different story than what is currently being portrayed...in a lot of units, probably not all.  My uncle is actually a wildlife biologist for the Game and Fish out of Jamestown, haven't talked to him about the process this year yet.  I am thinking that there is limited manpower resources within the Game and Fish and maybe budget constraints that limit the effective research and documentation of the deer population currently.  Maybe one day that will change.  I am hoping that it comes back around towards the positive as, like you said, will have a negative impact upon our youth.  Just my 2 cents.- - - Updated - - -The problem I see with scouting for several weeks, for deer, starting in March also cuts into time of other wildlife research.  Pheasants, waterfowl nesting sites, waterfowl migration, turkey population surveys, grouse breeding ground studies, partridge studies, and much more.  I am not positive the exact number of wildlife biologists that work for the Game and Fish but that seems like there is an awful lot to study within North Dakota in a short amount of time working 40 hours a week.  I state March because that is when one would have to start deer population studies to get an accurate assessment for the upcoming season due to the fact that applications for tags need to be submitted by the 1st week of June.</blockquote>

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