Posts Tagged ‘quality deer management

Now that my 2011 season is through, my thoughts have immediately shifted to planning for 2012 and let me tell you what, I’m excited! In August of this past year I moved to my new home/farm and immediately went about preparing for the 2011 season. But with only a month or so to prepare, I [...]

It’s truly a dream come true. With my recent move to a new home and property, I now officially have the opportunity to establish a quality deer management program of my own. Although I am renting, I have sole rights to hunt the property and manipulate the habitat as I see fit. I finally have [...]

As we discussed a week or two ago, surveying your local deer herd is incredibly important in any sort of managemnt plan for whitetails. And one of the mentioned techniques for surveying your herd was using observation data. Check out this quick video from wildlife biologist Brad Mormann of Growing Deer TV, as he discusses [...]

It’s official. After 22 hours of in-class instruction and discussion, I am now certified by the Quality Deer Management Association as a Deer Steward. To say I’m tickled  with this certification and the QDMA in general is an understatement. And as I write this, I realize I need to be careful not to sound like [...]

Every year the Quality Deer Management Association hosts several “deer steward courses” across America to provide a select few individuals with a world class education on all things related to deer and deer management. As fate would have it, this year I am one of those lucky few. This May I’ll be participating in the [...]

As many of you know, I recently had the great opportunity to attend the 2010 QDMA National Convention & Whitetail Expo in Louisville, Kentucky. It worked out well for us to attend because we were driving north from  our Tennessee vacation already and Louisville was right on our way home. We got to spend a [...]

Many of us in the Wired To Hunt Nation are on the younger side of the scale when it comes to the overall hunting population. That being said, most likely, many of us have no land of our own or own small pieces of land if any. So can the “next generation of hunters” succesfully [...]

We are the next generation of hunters and the future of deer hunting is in our hands. Think about that. Thats a lot of responsibility to have on our shoulders. There is one organization in particular that is there to help us ensure the future ourselves. This organization has mobilized and organized the whitetail hunting [...]

I remember learning about Liebig’s Law of the Minimum in college.  It’s simply a principle developed in the early 1800’s that states “growth is controlled not by the total of resources available, but by the scarcest resource (limiting factor).” As an illustration, a plant could be attempting to grow in an area that had ample [...]

I just ran across an article from the Deer & Deer Hunting June 2010 issue that was sent to me in their newsletter. The article is entitled “Has the QDM Bubble Burst” and in it Charles Alsheimer questions whether QDM can maintain its momentum in this new age of deer hunting. I was immediately curious [...]


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