Nice bio-babble, but the fact is the units in the Mat-Su valley are seriously below carrying capacity for an average year. When the population is way down it is time to limit the bull kill to achieve a better bull:cow, not increase the cow kill.
Not enough browsers allows the willows (especially) to outgrow their usefulness as browse and reduce the carrying capacity. As a kid I saw the Knik River flats absolutely covered with moose every winter. We are not within an order of magnitude of those days in the moose population.
Contrary to what you perceive, it isn't bio-babble. But, the question is; what would you consider an adequate and/or productive bull:cow ratio? I mean, if you reduce the number of bulls, does that thereby make a sub-population more productive and much more healthier? I'd like to know your reasoning on that, to know where in the heck you're coming from in reference to a sub-population's productivity.
