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I don't claim to know much about helicopter surveys. Especially one that's going to use infrared cameras to determine how many deer are down there. The only experience I have is that while on a ranch in south Texas last year, the ranch manager said his survey had to be way off. This was due to the number of deer each hunter was seeing at the same hunting hours on the same day....go figure a ranch manager taking the word of the HUNTERS instead of banking on a helicopter survey. If you've never been to Texas and had the pleasure of hunting with a ranch manager, let me tell you: these guys know deer. They know how to manage a deer heard on a piece of ground to it's fullest potential. I explained the direction the PGC was going and he simply said: "It will never work." They can not manage an entire state the way they are. What good is a helicopter survey going to do for the state of PA when one is only so-so on 4500 acres in south Texas?????? Sounds like another good way to explain the license costs increase to me.
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