From that report is this: "Toward this end, Audubon and the Nature Conservancy co-opted a handful of policy-makers in both DCNR and the PGC ..."
Pennsylvania's brass allowed the "oh, we 'support' hunting even though we don't hunt" crowd to get into bed with them. One mistake, of many.
I dont really know all the details but something similar must be going on in Minnesota right now. Everyone from that state who participated on the QDMA forum left as a form of protest for them not supporting changes that some of their grass roots organizations were wanting to see. It sounded like the deer herd is in pretty bad shape across many parts of the state from what I gathered from listening to those guys.
My bigger point for pointing to these other states though is that I think its misleading to throw it out there that we are only 1 of 3 states that dont have all these new progressive ideas implemented..as if all the other states are all living in deer utopia because they have. Using the mecca of deer hunting states like Iowa, Kentucky, Illinois, etc as comparative examples is just distorting the truth. Some of them have great deer hunting despite messed up regulations.not because of them. Ive heard that said about Illinois numerous times by folks on the QDMA forum who live there. Lets look at some more normal states if we want to see how others are fairing with more regulations than us.
