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.

A variety of antlerless tags are available to hunters each year. The number of antlerless tags issued is tracked, and since 2016 the department can also determine which tag type (Farmland Zone vs. …

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 of aquatic …

Harvest Statistics

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 that time an …

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Deer herd abundance is estimated annually with hunter-collected data and a mathematical model to get post hunt deer population estimates. For additional Information….

Fawn to doe ratios (FDRs) collected in late summer give information on fawn recruitment and survival. FDRs from Summer Deer Observation (SDO) surveys were summarized using groups of county …

Population Statistics

Wisconsin Deer Metrics