Dear Sir, with all due respect to you i stated that i had read emails that contained information about several deer hunting businesses being involved in what i in my personal opinion considers to be unethical business practices. And i will leave it at that.
What im saying is the state no longer maintains the role of managing the deer herds as it did twenty five years ago. The state wildlife biologists and conservation officers have simply been pushed aside by the privatized deer hunting business owners. The KDFWR wont admit it due to it giving the appearance of the KDFWR losing control of the deer herd management programs that took decades to develop and implement and the millions of tax payer dollars that was spent doing so.
There are quite a few of these large hunting operations evenly dispersed throughout the state and you have to consider they involve thousands of acres of farm land. Then there are the medium size operations consisting of more or les than a thousand acres that are adjoining the largest ones. In some instances there are enough of these medium size operations that they completely surrounding the largest of the hunting properties. And there are the additional four and five hundred acre land tracts that are connected to the medium size operations. For anyone who cant imagine this is true then come down to Henderson, Union, Webster, Crittenden, Caldwell, Hopkins, Muhlenburg and Ohio Counties and you will see for your self.
These are all privately owned and managed deer herds that are located inside of multiple thousands of acres of privately posted land. These deer herds are being managed in ways that the general public would not approve of with little regard to the opinions of the general public because the general public will not be hunting them. And does the KDFWR really care that all this is happening? Probably not due to the fact their big game management work load has most likely been reduced by over 80% in the last twenty five years. The fact is the deer hunting business owners are doing all the KDFWR work for them.
I left when i was a teenager and went to NCY to hang steel in a relatives construction business i came back in 2009 and i couldn’t believe how much the deer herds had improved. The large numbers of trophy sized deer im seeing now is mind blowing considering it is something you didn’t see here twenty five years ago. The bad thing about it is twenty five more years an entire future generation of hunters will be lost and non-existent.
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