New Hampshire Nature Notes
by Eric Orff

NH Fish and Game Wildlife Biologist Patrick Tate does a deer biological check (VIDEO)

Saturday 10/31/2020

New Hampshire Fish and Game Department wildlife biologists fan out across the state each fall to check the biological condition of New Hampshire's deer. Biologist monitor the antler beam diameter and weights of yearling bucks in particular to determine the health of the deer. Shrinking abtler beam diameter and weights would indicate that there are too many deer in that area and regulations would change the next year to reduce deer numbers in that area. Over the last fourty years Fish and Game has been able to increase the deer population from about 40,000 to over 120,00 today. There are now more deer in the state than since before colonial times.