A crisp excerpt from the Minnesota Reformer.
The Topline: The deerpocalypse is canceled
By Christopher IngrahamFinal deer harvest numbers are in
The Department of Natural Resources reports that hunters harvested 158,678 deer in 2023, down 8% from the prior year. But that was partly due to fewer registered hunters. In the end, hunters’ 2023 success rate (32%) was identical to the previous year’s.
Hunters and their allies have made a big stink over the alleged lack of deer in the state’s northeast sector, and they’ve blamed wolves. And while the harvest decline was indeed steepest in that sector, so was the drop-off in the number of hunters. Overall, the hunter success rate in the northeast dipped by just 3 percentage points — hardly the catastrophe some have made it out to be.
Photo: Photo by Andrew Landry. Courtesy of the National Park Service/ via Minnesota Reformer.
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