Support Pennsylvania Game Law Reform

We the responsible Hunters of Pennsylvania respectfully request that the Pennsylvania Game Commission reform the antlerless deer season regulations.

The current regulation has severely crippled the deer population in northern counties. With two weeks of doe season the next years crop of deer has no chance of rebounding. We request that the doe season only be three days at the end of the two week buck season. This was a successful management of the northern deer herd in the past.

The whole point of the game commission is conservation of the wildlife. Under current regulations this is not conservation but extermination. We as hunters would like to be able to have a future for our children and grand children as hunters.

The current demise of our (the hunters of PA) deer herd started in 2001. Let's not have history repeat its self like it did in Adams, Franklin, Cumberland counties in the 1850's.

1851 - August 1 - Deer hunting banned for five years in Cumberland and Franklin counties.

1856 - April 10 - Deer hunting banned for five years in Adams County.

Time line below taken from PA Game commission website.

2000 - A three-day antlerless deer season begins on the final day of buck season, a Saturday, in an effort to increase the antlerless deer harvest.

2001 - First concurrent two-week antlered/antlerless deer season held.

2006 – Agency begins using a new deer population monitoring procedure to manage whitetails.

2006 – Game Commission begins using direct measures of deer health (reproduction), forest habitat health (regeneration), and deer-human conflicts (Citizen Advisory Committees) to guide deer management recommendations.

2006 – Game Commission stops releasing county deer harvest numbers; provides only wildlife management unit deer kill totals.

2007 – Game Commission forms a Deer Communications Working Group to address misunderstandings about deer management.

Source of information
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=9109&PageID=683448&mode=2&contentid=http://pubcontent.state.pa.us/publishedcontent/publish/marketingsites/game_commission/content/wildlife/research/wildlife_conservation_history/Conservation_History_2000_to_2009_CI.html