I can imagine it is frustrating in the extreme. I remember those days well. But now you have the DNR between rock and a hard place. If they allow the deer numbers to recover too soon and the TB comes back you will slaughter them (the DNR). If they hold the pedal to the floor to be sure they beat the TB thing once and for all (or at least for a while), you will slaughter them.
Meanwhile, they are trying to census for something that might not be there, or is at least damn rare, and yet they have almost no samples. That necessarily makes it all but impossible to make the right call scientifically, meanwhile, they get hammered on all sides politically and in the public media. It must suck to be a DNR guy doing his dead-level best. Take mercy on them. They cannot win.
