Wisconsin: Drive Carefully! 2014 Deer harvest lowest in 30 years!
In Wisconsin, there are about 20,000 car/deer crashes each year. In 2012 (most recent data I could find) 445 people were injured or killed in car/deer accidents. Source (PDF).
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/outdoors/wisconsin-deer-kill-lowest-in-30-years-b99401459z1-284534621.html
Hunters registered 191,550 deer in the 2014 Wisconsin gun deer season, a 15% decrease from 2013 and the lowest kill in more than 30 years, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday by the Department of Natural Resources. The 2014 harvest included 90,336 bucks (down 8% from 2013) and 101,214 antlerless deer (down 21%). The nine-day gun deer season ran Nov. 22 to Nov. 30.
This year's deer kill was the lowest since 1982, when hunters registered 182,715 deer. State wildlife officials attributed the reduced harvest to a lower deer population in northern Wisconsin, poor weather in parts of the state on opening weekend and regulations that restricted the kill of antlerless deer. All or part of 19 counties were "buck only" this fall, an effort to protect female deer and increase numbers in future years.
The number of license sales also was down. The DNR reported sales of 608,711 gun deer licenses, a drop of 24,891 (4%) from 2013. The license sales total was the lowest since 1976.
On the positive side, the season was the safest on record with three non-fatal shooting incidents. The previous low was five incidents (three non-fatal and two fatal) in 2004.
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