I usually hunt both public and some private land from Lake City all the way down to Great Bluffs State Park. Depends on the year and what I can get on to hunt.
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We are seeing a lot less than in years past?

The complaints from landowners as to deer numbers and of significant changes in crop/habitat damage seem to be related to all the leasing going on. Large farms get leased to raise and hunt trophy bucks, those deer then go to their neighbors farms and eat the crops.

No one likes to hunt when you don’t even see a deer, this isn’t an enjoyable hunting experience.

Would you like to see numbers increased by at least 20% YES

Any suggestions/comments on current or other deer management practices for zone three (APR’s, season changes, etc.)

I’m not sure the deer aren’t there, it is that we just can’t get to them. With so much leasing the deer herd is being protected just to produce one or two trophy Bucks that some out of state hunter can pay big bucks to shoot.

With the sunset of the Green Acres tax relief, I’m thinking we need some sort of tax incentive that would be based on letting hunters in and managing for deer.

I have a friend down by Winona, he wants big bucks on his land. His belief is to do this means having lots of Doe’s around, so he doesn’t want the young bucks or any Doe’s shot. We drove around and counted over 70 deer one day.