It is truly baffling to me that an unregulated harvest, with zero data, can be overlooked LOL.
Look at the decimated Whitetail populations as a direct result of female harvest, and it really is just that simple. Any ungulate I am aware of can be decimated by targeting the females of any species, which is the entire point behind the WT doe harvest.
I am not directly pointing toward unregulated hunting, I would also include some of the private landowners who invite unregulated hunters onto their massive properties to shoot dump truck loads of Elk, mostly Cows.
If anyone thinks that doesn't happen then......you need to get out more, or maybe just wake the fugg up.
Something happened to all those Elk, they didn't just get eaten by predator's, and they certainly didn't all get shot by regulated hunters, just didn't happen.
