goobler,
You can do anything you want with your own private property, you just can't kill more than the limit of the PEOPLES deer - they are owned by the people of the State, that is the difference.
Your concept of ownership of game and the right to hunt is different from God's concept and the "PEOPLE" of our state's concept of government as it effects those rights.
Our constitutions protect rights "endowed by our Creator". Our state constitution enumerates hunting as one of those rights.
The Alabama Legislature wrote a law that states:
The title and ownership to all wild birds and wild animals in the State of Alabama or within the territorial jurisdiction of the state are vested in the state for the purpose of regulating the use and disposition of the same in accordance with the laws of the state.
(emphasis added)
No law currently exists that authorizes the DCNR to implement wildlife management rules such as your qdm limits on privately owned and leased lands.
The "PEOPLE" you refer as owners of the deer adopted our Constitutions that forbid agencies of the executive branch from assuming legislative powers.
Here's an example of how it can be done within the law:
Section 9-11-240
Opening of season for hunting, etc., of female deer and unantlered male deer.
Any law of the State of Alabama to the contrary notwithstanding, the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources is hereby authorized to open a season in any county, area or section of the state for the hunting, taking, capturing and killing of female deer or unantlered male deer by a duly promulgated regulation when, in his best judgment, he deems it necessary for biological reasons or because of crop damage to open the season on such deer, provided this meets with the approval of the landowner or leaseholder.
(Acts 1966, Ex. Sess., No. 180, p. 213, § 1.)
(empasis added)
That law was written by our legislature that was elected by the "PEOPLE" in accordance with the provisions of our Constitutions. It wasn't written by a handpicked board acting on the advice of handpicked cronies of a commissioner.
