Thread: Deer Population Growth

Some good information on how that works here too.

Key piece of information in there is the quality of deer is at a maximum when the population is at a minimum.

https://www.msudeer.msstate.edu/popu...cs-of-deer.php

This second page talks about habitat carrying capacity. That's a metric I've often thought we are missing in NZ (unless I've missed it), i.e. how many deer (or Tahr, pigs etc etc) can a specific area hold that will produce high quality animals and minimal damage to the environment. Reckon it's just pretty chaotic here in NZ. It could be useful knowing we need to take ~600 deer from the southern Ruahines in the next year for example, and then hunters got to work doing that.

https://www.msudeer.msstate.edu/deer...g-capacity.php

Good share