Introduction
In the early 1900's there were an estimated 500,000
white-tailed deer in the United States. Unregulated commercial hunting and
subsistence hunting threatened to eliminate the white-tailed deer from much of
its range. At that time, many state wildlife agencies were formed with the goal
of conserving the nation's depleted wildlife resources. Hunting regulations
were put into place, and the harvest of antlerless (female) deer was
prohibited. The rebound of white-tailed deer populations that followed is
considered a wildlife management success story. Today there
Process