Haven’t you ever heard someone tell you when a deer runs out in front of you on the road, to always slow down because there are usually more behind it. That is how our wonderful DNR counts them. Oh hey there is one deer so lets say there are 5 behind it ,yeah that’s it . I wish they really cared about the states natural resources . Instead its just some low dog doing what the top dog says to get his pay check. This is only going to get worse. Maybe since the Illinois deer & Turkey classic is in Springfield , some noise should be made about this instead of listening to o’l Stanley Potts talk about his farm in Kentucky and how good he is . I used to think Clint Harvey was over the top on his rants.Clint. I am so sorry you have been right all along and I was to dumb to see it. Must have been all the deer stickers and camo on all the pickup trucks blinding me. I think they also have changed the meaning of D N R . It means DEER NOT REQUIRED, welcome to Illinois.
I hope people get this its all about those in power filling their social wallets. The spoilers of market hunting! The ILLINOIS deer are headed to a buffalo ending lets read history of buffalo there where to many rail roads had problems with them so a value was made of just the hides and then the slaughter began, The rail roads whom needed them cleared shipped the hides out only. Beef producers wanted no other meat but theirs in the east so it was put out their that only the hide was good. Tens of thousands buffalo corps skinned filled the plain. Who has seen the pictures of the hunters shooting from train cars the rail road was supporting a slaughter. Will deer now we have come to a junction of together we stand or as IDNR would like together we fall but their job should be rated on actual public view of mangers accomplishments not I work for the state union and can openly neglect doing the right thing. We should send them all a 1950s school book on conservation again it was taught in schools that trees stop erosion and killing the hens kills off 10 more that could have come from that hen. The schools taught this because of the mistakes of the past early 1900s put fowl deer and fish headed to endangerment. Lastly our deer in Illinois are from Michigan stocked after being breed in a state program at crab orchard or horseshoe lake ISLAND search the web youll find the restocking began in southern Illinois. Oh yes you younger people dont know that it happened already Illinois lost its deer to no management over hunting. Please search the web for Illinois deer breeding program and release of deer. So this might explain why some county’s in Illinois have huge deer did some come from in ported deer from Alberta Canada and released during the deer restocking program?