My opinion is it was a combination of the liberal doe season that was put in place to reduce deer numbers. The problem is it was applied to the entire state instead of only the areas where the population needed to be reduced. Along with the rise of the coyote population that exploded about that same time. The explosion in the coyote population was probably unforeseen at that time. I just hope they don't wait to long until they decide we have reduced the herd enough is most places that doe season needs reduced. Or 8-10 years from now we will be talking about how good it use to be before the herd was reduced to the point it couldn't recover due to increased coyote population which must be factored in to the doe harvest going forward.