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Wasilla QDM
- 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.
- 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...