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south, he warned.
Referring to a publication from the West Virginia Extension Service, Mr. Miller reported that, left alone, a deer population will increase by 40 percent every year. If bucks only are harvested, the population will climb by 25 percent, he said. ‘The one way to control the deer population is through hunters harvesting doe,” Mr. Miller stressed. “The herd has a quick recovefy ability if too many doe are shot one year. It’s no problem to adjust (the bag limit) the following year.”
“I’d like to clean up hunting in Rappahannock County,” reaffirmed Supervisor Lane. Road hunters, trespassers and other hoodlums in the field and forest “are giving all - ' hunters a bad name,” he said.
“That’s another issue,” Supervisor Miller maintained.
Reporting that he has counted 27 doe in a single herd in one local orchard, Mr. Estes seconded the motion to seek an increase to three in the bag limit here, with one required to be a doe and doe allowed to be taken throughout the season.
“I’d like to see the seasons equalized east and west of the Blue
4 Ridge,” interjected Supervisor Lane, suggesting that be part of the request to the Game Commission. After the two-week season closes on the other side of the mountains, hunters pour into Rappahannock, “littering our roads, shooting at our houses and our back yards,” the supervisor complained. If the deer population is controlled by the bag limit and not the length of the season, then hunting should be allowed for the same time period statewide, he argued.
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