Are any of your landowners on cost share with the State?

We went from seeing 40 does on a green field with a 5-6' browse line and killing a few 110" bucks to seeing 20 does and killing 120-140" bucks. The body weight went from 70-90lbs to 100-120lbs. I see deer 90% of times I hunt. I own 40 acres and manage some family land and lease 300 acres for a total of 750 acres. I talk with my neighbors so we all know what we are all doing and that bring the total to around 3000 acres. We have triplets on our property every year and all the biologists I have talked to say that is a sign of a healthy herd. We don't kill 20 does each year but that is our goal, last year we only killed 16 because of the 1 doe per day. I am not a rich land owner but I do put in lots of work to manage the property.'

I love when someone uses the Paintbrush example. We aren't rich, but have large acreage, just under 4998 acres. I know that what somebody does 50 miles from me affects the number of deer on my place, so the '' let me manage my land '' , deal doesn't hold water.
ALL WILDLIFE and LAND IS CONNECTED UNLESS IT IS FENCED. That's like saying if a nuke goes off in Atlanta, We're good because it happened in Atlanta??
On almost 5000 acres, I am lucky now to get more than 12 deer per 4 camera sets any time of the year. The only constant in that compared to years ago is the removal of female deer at an accelerated pace!!!