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Magic!

Deer management, in the condensed version, has 3 steps: Identify goals and objectives Collect data to assess deer population and […]

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Smoke and Mirrors

It is no secret that not everyone likes antler point restrictions (APRs). However, they are supported by about 60% of […]

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Who Run the World

(Does)

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Old Spice

While approaching traps, I could sometimes tell we had been successful before the trap even came into view. It wasn’t […]

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Field Notes

Deer Crew Diaries may go on hiatus in the summer and fall but that doesn’t mean the field techs do. […]

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Synchronous Serendipity

While we have put the topic of fawn predation to bed on this blog, it’s still shows up. A recent […]

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Oh what a beautiful morning…

October is upon us and love is in the air. But I’m not talking about deer. Today is the first […]

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Two Bucks, Three Years

This week I have 2 different bucks we tracked for 3 years. That means these bucks were at least 2.5 […]

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Same Thing, Different Year?

We have shown a lot of movies of deer movements. Our most famous deer died outside his home range at […]

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A New Podcast Interview

Jeremy Gillespie of Going 4 Broke Outdoors interviewed me for Episode 5 of his podcast. Jeremy asked a lot of […]

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Phase IV- A fool’s errand

Duane’s COVID summer project centered around rats in the barn but it’s not hard to see the parallels to deer […]

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Phase III – What every story needs

When we embarked on this COVID summer project, we had no idea what an epic adventure it would become.  Harry […]

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