Lt. Skrumpledonk Ret
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I have a nefarious theory: 20 years ago in Wisconsin, doe tags were hard to come by. There was a lottery the few available. In the last half decade or so in the zone I hunt in, there were at least 7,000 available even a month before the season started. If someone wanted to shrink the size of the herd; this would be the way to do it.
Has the same thing happened in PA and MI?
Could the billion dollar car insurance conglomerate bribe the Dept of Natural Resources to inflate the size of the herd, thereby allowing hunters to help out in getting the number of car/deer accidents to drop?
There are some interesting tidbits in this report on car/deer accidents in WI:
http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/safety/motorist/crashfacts/docs/deerfacts.pdf
-Almost 19,000 deer accidents in 2012
-Figure 4 shows the numbers aren't dropping all that fast.
-Notice in Figure 5 that there is a clearly defined "Deer are not mobile between 8 am and 4 pm" lull in the day.
-That graphic on the top isn't a whitetail.
Here's an article from PA
http://www.edgarsnyder.com/blog/2013/10/17-pennsylvania-car-deer-crashes.html
If I were at the controls of the insurance industry; I could afford , and be motivated, to buy-off the process by which doe tags are available. To be fair, it seems the herd really is enormous and cars kill way more deer than hunters. Has the number of tags available in PA and MI spiked since the 90's?
Has the same thing happened in PA and MI?
Could the billion dollar car insurance conglomerate bribe the Dept of Natural Resources to inflate the size of the herd, thereby allowing hunters to help out in getting the number of car/deer accidents to drop?
There are some interesting tidbits in this report on car/deer accidents in WI:
http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/safety/motorist/crashfacts/docs/deerfacts.pdf
-Almost 19,000 deer accidents in 2012
-Figure 4 shows the numbers aren't dropping all that fast.
-Notice in Figure 5 that there is a clearly defined "Deer are not mobile between 8 am and 4 pm" lull in the day.
-That graphic on the top isn't a whitetail.
Here's an article from PA
http://www.edgarsnyder.com/blog/2013/10/17-pennsylvania-car-deer-crashes.html
According to a new report by State Farm insurance, Pennsylvania had the most deer-vehicle accidents in the nation, with an estimated 115,000 such collisions last year. Michigan was in second-place, coming in with 77,000 collisions.
The season marks the peak time for deer-vehicle collisions in Pennsylvania, which accounted for more than $400 million in damages last year.
If I were at the controls of the insurance industry; I could afford , and be motivated, to buy-off the process by which doe tags are available. To be fair, it seems the herd really is enormous and cars kill way more deer than hunters. Has the number of tags available in PA and MI spiked since the 90's?