Virginia Considering “Earn A Buck” Program
December 12, 2007
With the whitetail deer population somewhere around 1 million and growing in Virginia, officials with the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is considering instituting an “Earn a Buck” program in eight locales around the state where deer populations are the highest and most problematic.
The so-called Earn a Buck program requires that hunters harvest at least one doe deer before they are allowed to take a buck. This effort has been tried in other states with reasonable success and helps in reducing deer populations. Without the requirement, sometimes hunters will opt out of taking a doe and taking only buck deer instead. This leaves more does and more does mean more fawns in the spring and the cycle continues.
Read more about this proposal and the areas that will be affected here.
Tom Remington
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Hi,
I am an avid hunter and I am conducting a personal survey which contains questions about many of the hot topics for hunters in VA as well as some regulations that I feel need to be further looked into by the VDGIF. I want this survey to reach as many VA hunters as possible so I am posting it on hunting internet chat forums as well as sending emails. I was wondering if you could help spread the word by posting the link below and passing the survey along via email. I would like to compile the data after 30 days and present my findings to the Game Dept. It is my hope that this will help VA hunters express their opinions and possibly aid VDGIF in making decisions about our future hunting regulations. I know this is more of a request but I really want to reach as many hunters in the Commonwealth as possible.
Here is the link…
http://www.tigersurvey.com/survey.php?survey=4350
Thank you so much for your consideration. My email is above so if you can help in any way, please let me know.
Well, you now have the link here on this page. Go over to the Virginia forums and sign up there and you post about it there. I’ll take a look at it and see if it is something I want my readers at the Black Bear Blog to know about.