Buck Vulnerability

Hunting season timing, rules, and landscape characteristics, like habitat types and terrain, all contribute to how vulnerable male deer are to being harvested during the hunting season.

This project is designed to better measure how these factors affect the vulnerability of white-tailed and mule deer bucks to harvest in different areas of the state, with the ultimate goal of using this information to maintain hunter opportunity, hunt quality, and deer populations into the future with changing technologies and hunter numbers.