>I would agree, we might not
>have the big mule deer
>numbers that some of the
>other states have... but the
>black tail population is huge.
>When I lived in Morgan
>Hill (South SF bay area)
>we had 100's of deer
>living right in residential areas
>and all through the fringe
>areas of the property's inside
>and outside of town, problem
>is that there is no
>huntable public land for virtually
>hundreds of miles and lots
>of non-hunting landowners. If you
>own or have access to
>public land anywhere along the
>central coast all the way
>up to the north coast
>you are privy to fantastic
>blacktail hunting... and can shoot
>two deer per year, which
>with all the un-hunted private
>land has virtually no effect
>on the population.
How can you count a herd you can't hunt or a protected herd for that matter, I'm talking in SisQ county, I've watched our herd drop by at least 70% in ten years....