How many unique licensed hunters do we have each year? Including those who hunt using landowner and lifetime licenses .... is it 250,000 or so?
And we kill 120-130,000 deer a year?
Even if we only allowed each hunter a single "deer" license we would have to hope that over 50% of the hunters are not successful in order to shrink our kill numbers.
I have pondered the following questions many times .... how many deer do we have. How many deer do we want. How did we arrive at those two numbers.
I pondered those three questions when the DNR was supposedly wanting to reduce our herd.
I ponder those three questions when a group wants to increase our herd.