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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 1002" data-attributes="member: 314"><p>I sent this email to Jeb Williams today....</p><p><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">On Apr 22, 2015, at 6:01 PM</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Good Afternoon Mr. Williams, was the Game and Fish able to perform any aerial whitetail deer surveys this past winter??</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Thank You,</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Kirk </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Here is his reply.....</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Kirk,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Due to lack of snow, we were not able to fly any of our survey blocks. A double edged sword in that it was a great winter with lack of snow but that lack of snow also meant a lack of data collection. Jeb</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Sent from my iPhone</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">Williams said the department uses five key indicators--five-year average harvest rates, regional license densities,</span></span><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"> <strong>regional aerial survey data</strong></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">, regional hunter observation rates and biological/social factors such as disease and deer-vehicle collisions--to set license goals.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">Apparently they aren't using any regional aerial survey data as they didn't collect any.  So that means tag numbers are being determined by subjective data.  Subjective data means an individuals personal agenda can skew or make the data to fit what they want.  This is NOT science, this is politics.  Without sound scientific data we as hunters are at the mercy of public opinion and we are not a majority.  Keep this in mind when you get declined for a tag.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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