Population Statistics & Trends Fawn to doe ratios and yearling buck percentages are used to help estimate the deer herd size annually and is the starting point for setting antlerless harvest quotas.

Eurasian watermilfoil: long-term trends in unmanaged populations The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources conducts and supports a variety of projects that improve our understanding …

CWD was first detected in Wisconsin in 2002 when three deer taken by hunters in the fall of 2001 near the village of Mount Horeb, about 10 miles southwest of Madison, tested positive. Since …

Wisconsin Deer Metrics

However, trends in roadside observations of does and fawns, especially in forested regions, have tended to match expectations based on other measures of nutritional condition of the herd and …

Harvest Statistics

The yearling doe percentage is estimated from aging data of harvested does and is used as an input into the formula for annual deer herd abundance estimation. Here, yearlings are defined …

View trends in county and statewide enrollment, shooting permit, Ag Damage, and Nuisance harvest numbers over the years. For additional Information….

Fawn to doe ratios (FDRs) collected for each Deer Management Unit (DMU) in late summer give information on fawn recruitment and survival and are used as an input into the formula for …

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