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This also goes into why I say that you don’t have to go into most areas and heavily try to kill does …..Basically doe killing in many areas likely just creates a decreased expansion rate of doe groups on the fringes……I’m not saying that we should completely shut down doe killing but just to illustrate the concepts at play I’m saying you could and it would work out just fine in most instances……Why??......Because the doe groups on the fringes where expansion is trying to happen are going to take on the brunt of your doe fawn mortality for the area through trying to expand…..either through road mortality or lack of quality fawning cover where fragmentation breaks the habitat…..maybe even higher coyote populations in the more open pasture/ag perimeter. Doe group expansion happens on the fringes driven by the amount of social stress between doe groups toward the middle of the population. A bunch of doe killing in the middle just slows any expansion on the fringes and replaces that mortality.....at least to an extent