Many things to improve the Montana mule deer situation could be done. This does absolutely nothing to help. Here are some things that would actually improve the situation yet FWP has chosen to ignore:
- Want to know what’s actually going on: implement mandatory hunter reporting.
- Want to rebuild numbers: stop allowing doe harvest.
- Want better age class: stop hunting November.
- Want less pressure: region specific tags for both res and non res; get rid of discounted NR tag programs; species specific general tags (MD or WT, must choose); move B tag doe seasons (should only be whitetail b tags at this point, still can’t believe MD does are open season on private land) to dates that differ from general season.
