If they wholesale kill Deer in the CWD identified area the hunters will complain. If they let it go and it somehow spreads to plague proportions across the State, and into adjoining States, what would be the hunting and non-hunting response? “Those bastaaards knew and did nothing!!!!”
The know it alls always think they have the right answer. We need more know it alls in the various Game Departments.
Here we have hunters complaining we don’t have enough Deer and also beeetching they can’t get two Doe tags. Area I hunt has a poaching issue. One farmer I know says he has called the GC on numerous occasions. He gets a recorded message when he calls: Press 1 for, press 2 for, etc. which takes him to another recorded leave a message. As of last fall he said they haven’t got back with him. Maybe he is BSing, maybe he isn’t.
Hunters told them for years that something bad was going on with Grouse. Their response was we don’t have the right habitat. Know they admit we have large areas of the right habitat, but perhaps it is West Nile that is causing the issue. So they inject Grouse eggs with West Nile and bingo the chicks die of it. Well, you inject embryos with contaminants and you are going to get defective births. Imagine that.
One thing for sure is the Pa GC is no longer all that fond of the sound of rifles. They much prefer the swish of the arrow.
Last edited by battue; 02/11/19.
