Any ideas on how they could do a better job with the resources they have?
Yes, reduce the number of people in Ohio...or lower the easy fascination with the whitetail deer.
Neither, of course, will happen.
Ohio, if I remember correctly, pretty well tracks Pennsylvania in size and population but what differs is large.
Ohio does not have the mountainous terrain, the degree and wisdom of the gameland system or, the DNR funding method as found in Pennsylvania....all as but a start.
Neither does Pa., with it's shape, have the population centers located within near spiting distance of the few state release areas.
Pennsylvania folks are lucky re the hunting of many species and, judging from that anti-PGC lawsuit to the constant whining over the success of the Alt Deer Plan, a great many of them have no clue of that luck.
I won't mention the struggle you all have with many Keystoners and the pheasant program.
Ohio could indeed do better but, on average, too many are too satisfied with where they are as either DNR employees or birdhunters.