LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - No comeback for Pennsylvania’s deer next year.
Tuesday’s meeting of the Game Commission was expected to be a showdown between hunters seeing too few deer and others who want to see more native plants, new trees in forests and less farmers’ crops devoured.
Despite increasing howls of protests from many hunters, the Game Commission voted in Harrisburg to carry on with its commitment to a downsized deer herd for a more balanced ecosystem.
While many had expected a tumultuous, closely divided series of votes, the eight commissioners were fairly united in key decisions on the agency’s controversial scientific-based deer-management plan.
The number of antlerless deer licenses that will be available to hunters for 2006-07 was reduced only slightly, from 879,000 to 859,000
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