Tuesday, January 8, 2008

New Deer Management Booklet Available

The Pennsylvania Game Commission has just completed a new 14 page booklet entitled Pennsylvania Deer Management. It covers many important topics pertaining to the management of Pennsylvania's deer herd. The first section highlights the three goals of the deer management plan. These include: Managing for a healthy herd; Managing for healthy forest habitat; and reducing deer-human conflicts. Other sections of the publication include: Deer impacts on other species; Concurrent seasons; Estimating Pennsylvania deer harvests; Why am I seeing fewer deer?; and lastly a section entitled Hunters: customers, partners, stakeholders.

To download a copy of the publication go to:
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/lib/pgc/pdf/2008_deer_management.pdf

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