We had hoped to provide more advance notice of season dates to help them select their vacation days. That is what license buyers had asked for, however, since the deer data will not be available until mid-March and bear and wild turkey results were just made available, the board and staff concluded more time was needed before taking final action on the 2006-07 seasons and bag limits.

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She has helped the agency maintain a zero-growth budget, and has been instrumental in finding ways to cut spending to maintain our core services.

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Also, as general license sales are down by 5 percent this year, it is unreasonable to expect the overall deer harvest would have increased.

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