Humans don't have a clue what they're doing when they think they are "managing" a species. When I first started farming row crops here there wasn't a deer track anywhere "out on the hill". Some of you Southerners may know what that colloquialism means.The few there were lived in the deep swamp. The DNR said "Bucks only" for many, many years. The populations exploded to the point that we now have one of the highest density rates anywhere in the U.S., in my county. Now, we are issued depredation permits hand over fist to kill does all summer in our crop fields. I have never been refused a request for repeat permits because the DNR knows how bad it is. They eat so well here on crops that triplet fawns are a common sight throughout the summer. Last I heard the limit was 10 per season, per hunter. I quit "hunting" them 20 years ago. Now I just kill them. No fun, no sport, just an ugly necessity. What a waste.
SRH
