Quality Deer Management

1. Welcome to: WASILLA VALLEY HUNTING ORGANIZATION

3. Deer Management Strategies Traditional (Quantity) Management QDM - Quality Deer Management Trophy Management

8. Deer Management is like a Three-legged Stool... Herd Management Habitat Management Hunter Management

9. If One Leg is Shortened…The Stool will Fall Over! Herd Management Habitat Management Hunter Management

10. Adjustments must be made to prop up the short leg = Management Herd Management Habitat Management Hunter Management

12. Population Growth and Deer Quality BEST Maximum Yield GOOD POOR Deer Condition and Quality Carrying Capacity Population Size Time

13. Population Growth Minimum Harvest POOR Deer Condition and Quality Carrying Capacity Population Size Time

14. Population Growth Moderate Harvest Good Deer Condition and Quality Carrying Capacity Population Size Time

15. Herd Management How many Deer can you Harvest? Depends on Habitat Quality, but… Research says 35% to maintain Population 1 Doe per 100 acres

21. Food Plots Food Plots supplement natural habitats by “smoothing out” or leveling the nutritional plane across seasons.

22. Hunter Management

23. Manage Expectations

24. Average Antler Size Upper Coastal Plain Boone and Crockett Score AVERAGE Frequency

25. Average Antler Size Upper Coastal Plain % of Population

26. How do you manage expectations? “ Know” the deer on your property

27. Use cameras to make a list of “Shoot” and “Don’t Shoot” bucks Don’t Shoot Shoot!

28. How do YOU manage deer? 1st - Determine your objective. 2nd - Get Biologist assistance…for free!

29. The Deer Management Assistance Program, (DMAP) is a comprehensive deer management program, consisting of data collection and cooperator education with which the MDWFP tries to put the landowner/cooperator in a better position to manage their lands for a healthy deer herd, while maintaining habitat integrity. DMAP

30. How do we decide which bucks to Harvest ? Management Objective Harvest Fewer but larger antlered bucks Must protect young bucks

31. How do we decide which bucks to harvest? Numerous Methods... Point Restriction….8 or more Points Inside Spread….>14” Beam Length….>17” Combinations of the Above

33. Hopefully you have learned a few things about QDM and the goals of...