A lot of great info with your responses to my question. Do we dare take it a step further? Some people said a few suggestions that were posted were unrealistic, for this question you didn't have to be realist. But it did say if you were god of game management so that would limit you to things that game managers have control over and for the sake of argument we'll throw in forest land & BLM. But even though they are totally legitimate in their reasoning game managers don't have control over speed limits, Mansions on private property or the internet so I'll leave that out. Here are your categories you mentioned but banning doe hunting was probably the #1 most mention thing..
1. Improvement of winter range/habitat management. Sheet grass/all noxious weed control. Water guzzlers, etc."
2. Predator Control - Mentioned quite a bit. But mainly toward coyotes. How about control of larger predators?? There was mention of OTC cougar tags "is that enough, remember hounds can't be used in every state".
3. Where they have control - Wildlife corridors "over/under passes and more wildlife crossing warnings. Regarding traffic.
4. Season dates both when the hunt occurs and how long and how many season. Draw vs. OTC and wait periods after drawings was mention. No youth tags. No rut hunts.
5. Sex and age restrictions. "No doe hunting, antler point minimum, etc.". stop purposely cropping older bucks for CWD.
6. More accurate population studies and migration path studies.
7. Triple price of tags to lessen more poor hunters. Hey, he mentioned it not me
8. Technology - no trail camera's, all archery. I'm not surprised this wasn't mentioned more but should we take a harder look at limiting all our gadgets that have made us more efficient killers? More traditional weapons areas not necessarily seasons?
9. Ban antlers gathering and/or selling.
10. Stop CRP programs.
11. No one mentioned drain the swamp at our states fish and wildlife agencies either. Sorry couldn't help myself
I understand that I'm just writing everything you already know.
If mule deer come back then things can become a bit more lenient. How do we push more effectively for these things?????