Quality Deer Management is a management philosophy or practice that unites landowners, hunters and managers in a common goal of producing biologically and socially balanced deer herds within existing environmental, social and legal constraints. This approach typically involves the protection of young bucks (yearlings and some 2-1/2 year-olds) combined with an adequate harvest of female deer to maintain a healthy population that is in balance with existing habitat conditions and landowner desires. This level of deer management involves the production of quality deer (bucks, does and fawns), quality habitat, quality hunting experiences, and most importantly, quality hunters.
For more information, visit the Quality Deer Management Association website at
www.qdma.com.