Here is the email from another site, one that claims to NEVER influence a hunters decision.....
I would be remiss if I didn't identify the site and Author........ WWW.hunt-indiana.com and Woody Williams.
From: HUNTING INDIANA
INPUT TO THE IDNR
As owner and administrator of hunt-indiana.com I would be remiss in my duty to not give all members a heads up on the present DNR input session.
This is the second year since the IDNR started on a strategic deer herd population reduction program in specific areas. Contrary to some beliefs it appears to be working. Has it gone too far in some areas? Possibly, but the IDNR can alleviate that with bonus permit allocation reduction in those same areas.
Proof positive is that the DNR basically eased off the deer herd reduction gas pedal after the first year (2012) and instituted a reduction of bonus permits from 2012 to 2013 in some 20 counties. That shows that it is going the way that they wanted it to go and they are now starting to scale back. 6 of those 20 counties fell to a 3 or less bonus permit county that took those counties out of the “special late antlerless” season. It is my opinion that they will ease off some more for the 2014 season.
Now the heads up - I’m sure that there are some hunters that do not care for any reduction at all, but it is what it has to be. A very vocal minority is using this planned reduction in an attempt to turn the clock back and are again proposing to “shorten and move the gun and muzzleloader seasons, get rid of the late special antlerless season and get rid of the crossbows.” I guess they do not understand the concept of a “strategic herd reduction” that the DNR is doing.
If you do not want any changes to the firearm and/or the muzzleloader and crossbow season I suggest that you make your feelings known to the DNR at
We have had a 16 day firearm and a 16 day muzzleloader season for a long, long, long time. Even when the DNR was *GROWING* our deer herd. They can grow the herd again with the current seasons by doing exactly what they did then - limiting antlerless permits and/or scaling back county participation in the late special antlerless season. With the DNR deer biologist using the antlerless bonus permits the herd can be controlled where it is supposed to be. When a county gets to a 3 bonus allowance that removes it from the late special antlerless season, just like the DNR did with those 6 counties this last season. That move brought to a total of 23 counties that the “special late antlerless season did not apply. With the bonus permits reduction and more counties falling under the 4 limit for the special late antlerless season the DNR can tweak the herd size the way it supposed to do without taking away any deer hunter opportunity
Please send in YOUR input on this and YOUR OWN IDEAS to the DNR today at –
