[model99er]

Since we have a lot of folks here from various states, I thought it would be kinda neat if everyone could post the Deer Harvest Data (preferably by adding a post & links) for your particular State. Obviously it is too soon to have much is any data for the 2007-2008 Season yet, so I have made this a "sticky thread" so that it would be at the top of this section.


Virginia Data:
Link for Deer Kill Data from 1947 to 2006 (pull down menu for total, by area, by county, etc):
http://www.dgif.state.va.us/hunting/va_gam...6&disp=null

Link to Last Year's (2006-2007 License Year) harvest summary:
http://www.dgif.stat...vestsummary.asp

This year's 2007-2008 License Year:
---- not yet available -----



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[hemmy]

I'll get back to ya.I have the link in my favorites but gotta get the old er I mean wife to show me how to get it here dang nabbit.

[Mongojoe]

OKLAHOMA:

http://www.wildlifed...rvesttotals.htm

[MIbowhunter]

Heres michigans 2006 estimates.
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/deer...st_198710_7.pdf

2007 isn't out yet. Preliminary estimates, if my memory serves me correctly, were showing the southern lower area slightly down, and the northern lower area slightly up, as well as the U.P. slightly up.

[Hands]

http://www.outdooralabama.com/research-mgm...2A%20Report.pdf -


This is for the WMAs, and you go to about the 8th or so page and it starts to list them (this is in .pdf form) and the data from each for last season.

Couldn't dig up any recent licenses sold, but was around 189,000 for 05-06, not including lifetime'rs.

[model99er]

Virginia 2008 Deer Harvest Data is in ...
http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/hunting/va_ga...oralFilter=1997


Writeup on Virginia's 2008 Record Deer Harvest:
http://www.roanoke.c...ran/wb/xp-index

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Record deer kill: is that good or bad? By Bill Cochran

Matt Knox isn’t one to become infatuated over record deer kills. He made that clear when I met him for the first time in the fall of 1992, just after he was hired as the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries’ deer biologist.

At that time, Virginia’s deer population was on a boom and I was writing about a record kill nearly every season, which made exciting copy for readers who longed to see a deer behind every tree.

Knox told me the records were about to stop.

“What?”

Records, he said, don’t necessarily mean that the deer herd is in good shape. Fact is, they can point to a deer herd that it out of control, which is bad news because the result can be excessive deer damage and poorly developed animals.

Under the guidance of Knox, Virginia’s deer management plan in most instances has been to stabilize the herd, but occasionally a record pops up. Like during the recent 2007-08 season, when hunters reported killing 241,576 deer. That was a 7-percent increase over the previous season and roughly 4,500 deer above the old record set in 2003.

“Good news or bad?” I asked Knox.

“The record deer kill would have been bad news if the antlered buck kill had been way up,” he said.

In reality, the buck kill was up just slightly while the doe kill increased an impressive 13 percent. Since the record kill was fueled by a huge doe kill, “it is actually good news,” said Knox.

The 2007-08 season is destined to be remembered as the first year since 1947 -- when figures were first kept -- that more does were reported killed than antlered bucks. The number of does killed was 109,493, compared to 109, 275 antlered males. Male fawns, called button bucks, numbered 22,808. This placed the doe kill at 45.3 percent of the total. (Figures could change slightly as additional deer are added to the kill).

Knox said there are no problems with record kills in the future as long as they are the result of a record doe kill.

“It may take a decade or so to get there, but I would like to see does exceed 50 percent of the harvest on a sustained annual basis,” he said.

The 13-percent increase in the doe kill came at a time when there weren’t any new regulations to stimulate the antlerless harvest. That won’t be the case next year, which will highlight several new regulations designed to boost the female kill. In eight counties, for the first time hunters will have to earn the right to kill a second buck by first killing a doe.

Knox hopes this earn-a-buck concept will send a message across the state about the importance of killing an adequate number of does. It has been a long, hard journey for game officials to convince some hunters that it isn’t just all right to kill a doe, it can be the best thing you do for the herd and for hunting.

It may be equally challenging to convince deer hunters that the herd doesn’t just need to be stabilized, it must be reduced.

“I think we have been upfront with what we are trying to do. I would like to see us get the total deer kill back around 200,000 or less,” said Knox.

The question, will hunters tolerate a significantly lower kill? That hasn’t gone over well in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

“I do not think hunters will get nervous about the doe kill number or level, but we will hear from them if we are successful in reducing deer numbers. If the deer kill begins to fall, I hope we will not over react and become conservative,” Knox said.

FACTS:

>Some 57 percent of the deer kill was checked by telephone the past season, the highest ever. The phone-check service was available for the first time in 2004, when it was used by 44 percent of the deer hunters. “I may never be able to prove it, but truly believe that we are getting a higher percentage of deer checked with the new system,” Knox said. “We have made it easy and simple for hunters to comply with our checking requirements.”

>Hunters using crossbows reported killing 8,549 deer, up 21 percent from last year, but still only 4 percent of the total. The bow kill was 17,335, but that was just a 1-percent increase from the previous year. More than 20,000 crossbow licenses were sold and Knox believes about half of them were purchased by hunters new to the archery season. He looks for growth in crossbow hunting to level off.

>Muzzleloaders killed 55,434 deer, up 6 percent. This was 23 percent of the total. Look for this kill to increase next year when an extra week is added to the muzzleloading season west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

>The top-five deer kill counties were Bedford, 8,270; Southampton, 6,756; Fauquier, 6,656; Loudoun, 6,337; Franklin, 5,309.

UPCOMING: A look at the turkey and bear kills.

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[hemmy]

Well I had a link going the whole way back to 47 but lost it when the puter crashed.Here's of late

HARRISBURG, Pa., March 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Game
Commission today reported that hunters harvested an estimated 323,070 deer in
the state's 2007-08 seasons. That's down 11 percent from the previous
seasons' harvest.

Hunters took 109,200 antlered deer in the 2007-08 seasons, down 19 percent
from the previous license year's harvest of 135,290. Also, hunters harvested
213,870 antlerless deer in 2007-08, a five percent drop from the 226,270
antlerless deer taken in 2006-07.

[model99er]

Here is Virginia's 2008-2009 Preliminary Harvest Data for ... Bear, Deer, and Turkey (record VA harvests for both Bear and Deer) :

http://www.dgif.virg...ease.asp?id=206

A few snippets on VA's 2008-2009 Bear Harvest Data:
""A record number of 2,204 bears were harvested during the 2008-09 Virginia bear seasons. The figure represents the combined kill from archery, muzzleloader, and firearms. This year's record harvest was 35% higher than the previous record of 1,633 bears set in the 2006-07 bear seasons. The harvest in 2007-08 was 1,517 bears. West Virginia also had a record bear harvest this year.""

""Virginia's statewide bear harvest has been growing at an average annual rate of 9.5%, consistent with the Commonwealth's healthy and growing bear population.""

""In 2008-09, bears were harvested in 64 counties. Successful bear hunters came from 17 other states and one other country.""


A few snippets on VA 2008-2009 Deer Harvest Data:
""During the 2008-09 deer season, a total of 253,678 deer were harvested by hunters in Virginia. This new record represents a 4% increase from the 242,792 deer reported killed last year. The harvest is also 16% higher than the last 10 year average of 212,780 deer killed by hunters.""

""Across the state, deer kill levels were up in all regions including in the Northern Mountains (2% of the harvest), Northern Piedmont (3%), Southern Mountains (1%), Southern Piedmont (4%), and Tidewater (8%). This year's total included 111,863 antlered bucks, 22,291 button bucks, and 119,524 does (47.3% of the overall harvest).""

""Archers, not including crossbow hunters, killed 17,881 deer. The bow kill comprised 7% of the total deer kill. Crossbows resulted in a deer kill of 9,597 deer or 4% of the total deer kill. Muzzleloader hunters killed 57,038 deer. Muzzleloading comprised 22% of the total deer harvest.""

""More than 160,000 deer (63%) were checked using the Department's telephone and internet checking systems. This was up from 44% in 2004-05, 51% in 2005-06, 55% in 2006-07, and 59% in 2007-08.""


Note:
Once the Deer Harvest is completely finalized (prolly in another month, due to the "late season") it will show up in the normal VA Deer Harvest (Historical Based) Link here:
http://www.dgif.virg...rvest/index.asp


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[model99er]

Virginia 2009 Deer / Big Game Harvest Information Links and Articles

Link to yearly Deer Harvest Numbers pulldown menu:
http://www.dgif.virg...rvest/index.asp

Virginia 2009-2010 Deer Kill Summary Link:
http://www.dgif.virg...vestsummary.asp



Bill Cochran's usual very informative article:
http://www.roanoke.c...rs/billcochran/

"" Hunters in Virginia established record deer and bear kills during the 2009-10 season, but the tally was so close to the previous season no one is doing a lot of whooping.

The deer kill was a record 256,512, less than one percent above the previous year, according to figures released this week by the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.

The bear kill was a record 2,304, an increase of 4.5 percent over the previous season. It could have been much higher in the wake of new regulations that encouraged firearm, muzzleloader and archery hunters to kill more bears for population control. Hunter success fell toward the end of the season when it was impacted by a poor mast crop and harsh weather that included snowstorms.

There is not much to shout about over the fall turkey season, which saw a disappointing 3,538 birds reported, just 1 percent ahead of the previous season. A year ago I reported that the 2008-09 fall kill represented a 26 percent drop over the previous season and you would have to go back more than 20 years to find anything lower. Are we closing in on a time when the bear kill will be bigger than the fall turkey kill? ""



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[model99er]

2009 PA Deer Harvest Link:

http://www.portal.st...se__027_10.html


Note: Please make any comments in the 2009 PA Deer Harvest thread here ...
http://nhunting.com/...__0


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[model99er]

PA Deer & Bear Harvest Data 1915 to 2009 (present):

http://www.portal.st...D=625882&mode=2


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