I mainly hunt private land let me just get that out of the way. The 2 WMAs I have spent a little time on are Yates lake and Autauga, both of those WMAs are less than 10,000 acres. Southwood made an excellent point by stating the state could work to add land to existing WMAs. I feel the state could also do a better job of preventing existing WMAs from loosing land like what happend to Coosa WMA a few years back and Cahaba WMA this year.

I also agree with Atoler about the state could by multiple small properties for public use. The corp of engineers has multiple properties near where i live that are open to the public. the largest tract is 500 acres and the smallest is 44 acres. Its bow hunting only on all the corps land near me. They see a lot of pressure but I know people still kill deer on most of the properties every year.

If the state had multiple small properties, They could make a rule that any property less than 2500 acres be bow only, bucks must be 3 points or better on one side and does can only be harvested on certain weekends. I feel like those 3 rules alone would help keep the properties from being overwhelmed.

Also I know absolutely nothing about land or deer management I'll admit that. Im just telling you what i think.