indiana boy
Yearling... With promise
What are you wanting them to do about it?
SW Indiana - This looks very much like EHD...
- Thread starter MilkweedManiac
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What are you wanting them to do about it?
MilkweedManiac
5 year old buck +
Sorry to see/hear it. Maybe the other ones are still alive and will show back up for you.
I’m bracing myself for what I may very well have to see this year.
We have at least been getting some decent rain this way. Maybe it will help some.
j-bird
Moderator
Not meaning they can stop the EHD....meaning they can hopefully use the data to impact the bonus antlerless limits either yet this year or next. In an effort to ensure we pull back on the antlerless harvest in those hard hit areas.
indiana boy
Yearling... With promise
Got it. Did you see they dropped the bonus antlerless again in several counties? Getting most every county out of the late antlerless season.
j-bird
Moderator
I saw that 18 counties are still 4's....
Did you notice that Stuben is a 1 and Switzerland is a 2? These used to be the top harvest counties in the state! My concern or question is, just how far did we overstep in the harvest department to get to those numbers??? We are talking about counties that took 4,000 deer a year at times....
SoInHunter
Yearling... With promise
Before this EHD I would have said Clark still needed to be at least a 4 and honestly I liked having the ability to manage my doe population as I see fit under an 8. Some years I shoot zero, some years I shoot a lot.
With that being said, I am still seeing quite a few doe/fawn on camera. But I would not be against the DNR jumping in and reducing the bonus number in my county this year. There has been a pretty bad outbreak and the population is obviously taken a pretty good hit. Regardless of what the DNR does I know that zero doe will be harvest on my 180 acres and approximately 600 acres to my North this year so our number should jump back pretty quick.
With that being said, I am still seeing quite a few doe/fawn on camera. But I would not be against the DNR jumping in and reducing the bonus number in my county this year. There has been a pretty bad outbreak and the population is obviously taken a pretty good hit. Regardless of what the DNR does I know that zero doe will be harvest on my 180 acres and approximately 600 acres to my North this year so our number should jump back pretty quick.
MilkweedManiac
5 year old buck +
The tally for my area of woods is up to 10. I was given a link by the DNR to continue adding the count into a tracker page they have initiated. It looks like my county is one of the highest in number of dead deer findings, top three, in the state thus far.
EHD down by you and I guess CWD up in my area now - https://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/9650.htm
j-bird
Moderator
I have not seen or heard anything about CWD in IN....thus far.....or have I missed something? The link may simply be for reporting should you find something.
MilkweedManiac
5 year old buck +
j-bird
Moderator
Hopefully it's EHD and not CWD! CWD would create a much larger panic and response.
MilkweedManiac
5 year old buck +
Haven’t found anymore so that’s good. I noticed they added the 10 I told them about to the map and we are now 3rd highest reporting county in the state.
My dad texted me earlier and told me that a DNR truck was parked near our road, I assume checking for deer.
Had a really low plane fly over the ponds last week about five times in a row.
So it looks like they are giving it some of their time and effort.
My dad texted me earlier and told me that a DNR truck was parked near our road, I assume checking for deer.
Had a really low plane fly over the ponds last week about five times in a row.
So it looks like they are giving it some of their time and effort.
j-bird
Moderator
Just saw this.... Not sure of details......
http://www.in.gov/activecalendar_dn...nformation_id=62691&type=&syndicate=syndicate
http://www.in.gov/activecalendar_dn...nformation_id=62691&type=&syndicate=syndicate
j-bird
Moderator
Going down to Owen Co to check my property tomorrow. I have a sick feeling. While I still have a couple big bucks following their routines on the cameras there were some I had been seeing regularly which have disappeared, and overall deer traffic is clearly down. I have a creek and a small pond on the property to check...
Well, I covered the property pretty well, with the exception of the pond as it's remote and hard to access. No dead deer and no smell so that's a good thing...very dry. Never seen the stream so slow, it was almost stagnant.
MilkweedManiac
5 year old buck +
I’m so glad to hear that! For what it’s worth, most losses here locally have been does. I’m not sure if it is coincidence or if herds are affected differently in regards to gender.
However, I still have not seen many mature bucks this summer, which is unusual for this area, so they might have been bedding and expired somewhere else. I’ll update the thread as deer season starts and I start collecting trail camera info.
