Monitoring your efforts is crucial in helping to understand what’s going on with the deer herd and the effects of your management on the population. The first step in monitoring is to understand approximately how many deer use a particular property and if the available food and cover can support that number. You will learn
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Just like humans, deer are susceptible to a variety of unique and interesting diseases that can pose a serious threat to the overall health of the population. It’s important for hunters and land managers to understand these diseases and their causes, symptoms, and effects. We are the key to minimizing the spread of many deer
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Hunter Management is an often overlooked and underappreciated aspect of any deer management program. Hunting is fun, and the best way to keep it fun is to make sure that every hunter sets realistic goals and expectations before heading to the woods. Adjusting hunting pressure is a great way to ensure those expectations are met
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Understanding and managing both the buck and the doe population will ensure that the deer you are hunting have a balanced sex ratio and age structure, which in turn creates competition for breeding, more bucks realizing maximum antler potential, and a healthy deer population in balance with the available habitat. Discover the vast nutritional requirements
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Packed full of the most in-depth and detailed research available, start off this module by learning how to manage the forest to improve the diversity and quality of trees and ground level vegetation. Discover how herbaceous plants serve as both food and cover for deer and other wildlife and what you can do to maximize
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Start from the beginning and explore the history of deer management, how it has changed over time throughout North America, and where it is today. Jump into the basics of deer biology, how they behave and why, their movement patterns and how they communicate with one another and their environment. This session wraps up with
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