Northernpotter - The majority of complaints of " too many deer " are from suburbs around cities where nobody can hunt. I have a relative outside Allentown who says their neighbors are all distressed when they see deer in their yards eating grass or shrubs, foxes that run through the yards, hawks that pick off tweety birds at their bird feeders............ you get the picture. They move out to the country and then don't want what comes with it.
Rural areas in the more mountainous parts of Pa. are not overrun with deer like in years past. A few years ago, we had to walk a long way to even cut a deer track in the snow. Deer numbers are local - some have larger numbers, others have very few. I've personally seen LOTS more deer since deer season in the S.E. corner of Pa. where I live than I did after a season of hard hunting upstate. And it's the heaviest populated area of Pa.
Also - like Wklman said, it's a group of neighboring landowners deciding to do something about local deer numbers, because the state game agencies are in " hammer the deer herd mode ". We want more around - not less.