Do because you talked about it years ago, it makes all this laughable?
1. The larger areas will be outlined by habitat.
2. They will reduce opportunity by using a lottery system.
So basically, it is exactly what you asked for. And you are still complaining.
Not asked for. We didn't want them to do any of it and to leave the herd as it was Yet they insisted on a reduction. First under the guise of increased opportunity, it wasn't until two years later when people started to notice a sharp decline in the population numbers in certain areas that the voice of "stop killing so many deer" started to surface. After that the dnr admitted they were trying to reduce the numbers a little. Never saying how, how much, where, or anything else. For years they went off all half cocked which resulted in large areas being reduced far below acceptable numbers. They engaged in a pattern of lies blaming weather, crop rotations, and even the hunters lack of ability to adapt, to help cover up the actual reduction and keep hunters killing. It's laughable now because back then we were just a bunch of crazy assholes screaming about how screwed up their plan or lack there of was. The zoning and lottery pieces were in regard to how their plan was flawed by simply adding bonus gun seasons, bumping antlerless tag numbers, making antlerless tags cheap, and looking at the number of dead deer to guess the number of live ones without an actual population survey. There were no scientific controls around the effort just hack job management. The idea of implementing habitat zoning and a lottery for extra tags was suggested to place logical controls around the reduction effort and reduce the likelihood of overkill. Some areas are still suffering.
I used to hunt a lease in Vinton County where i could see 10-15 deer in a morning sit. I dropped out about 7 years ago due to the allowed decimation. Mike
@NoDakRat still hunts there. His money stand where you could see a dozen deer ever hunt you can go sit today and might see 1 deer in 4 days of hunting.
Not complaining about them doing it today, especially the habitat zoning, but it amounts to putting your seatbelt on after the crash. I guess all those "hunters online with their torches and pitchforks calling for my head" as Tonk called us, were not so wrong after all.
Hence, laughable.