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<blockquote data-quote="Tymurrey" data-source="post: 414788" data-attributes="member: 859">I wonder what the carrying capacity of a lot of the units are. I would like to think our game and fish should manage off biological reasons and not social. Its tough to manage the deer when it's mostly private land. I know i enjoyed having lots of deer on my property but knew the carrying capacity during a hard winter was lower than what I used to have on there. Its the normal cycle of wildlife I feel, numbers go up from good years and then a bad winter or storm or ehd come along and wipe them out. The areas with good habitat will rebound, areas of no or poor habitat will never rebound. Everyone likes to have lots of wildlife until they are starving during the winter. A lot of us on this site would supplement or feed them but we are the minority when it comes to hunters I think.As far as hens vs does. If the limit on hens was 5 a year per person it probably wouldn't have much of an effect on population. Just because you give a youth hunter a tag doesn't mean they need to fill it either. Thats on us as the mentors to let them know they don't need to shoot one but we can still spend the time in the field and if we see an old dry doe, let them harvest her.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tymurrey, post: 414788, member: 859"] I wonder what the carrying capacity of a lot of the units are. I would like to think our game and fish should manage off biological reasons and not social. Its tough to manage the deer when it's mostly private land. I know i enjoyed having lots of deer on my property but knew the carrying capacity during a hard winter was lower than what I used to have on there. Its the normal cycle of wildlife I feel, numbers go up from good years and then a bad winter or storm or ehd come along and wipe them out. The areas with good habitat will rebound, areas of no or poor habitat will never rebound. Everyone likes to have lots of wildlife until they are starving during the winter. A lot of us on this site would supplement or feed them but we are the minority when it comes to hunters I think. As far as hens vs does. If the limit on hens was 5 a year per person it probably wouldn't have much of an effect on population. Just because you give a youth hunter a tag doesn't mean they need to fill it either. Thats on us as the mentors to let them know they don't need to shoot one but we can still spend the time in the field and if we see an old dry doe, let them harvest her. [/QUOTE]

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