Our doe populations across the state are fragmented and divided into lots of subsets of smaller individual populations of females separated by the major road way systems and major habitat breaks. The total number of does existing within each one of these subset population areas will be limited by the amount of suitable habitat…..The number of bucks that can exist in comparison though is not limited to that space.

We’ll use Matt’s 100 doe example for one of these subset areas…….Those 100 does could produce 50 bucks this year……50 bucks next year……..50 the year after that……..50 more the following year and so on……..Over a 5 year time period that “100 doe population” could produce 150-250 bucks that disperse and populate the fringe areas around where these 100 does exist……

The doe population on the other hand is maxed out at 100 because that is as many as social conflict will allow to exist ……Does will not stockpile past a certain threshold in most normal situations……They will try and expand their range on the fringes and the excess will end up as road mortality….which is ultimately why we have been taught to shoot females…..If were to just let it go, road mortality would be what eventually controlled these doe population and held them to a certain maxed out constant of 100 within the subset area…..