Madison, Wis. A preliminary call-in tally of registration stations across Wisconsin show hunters took fewer than 300,000 deer during the regular nine-day gun deer hunt that closed Nov. 25. While that figure is about 33-percent lower than the preliminary

Wisconsin DNR wildlife managers had expected a reduced harvest from 2000, when the deer herd was estimated at about 1.8 million animals prior to the hunting seasons, and a combined deer harvest of more than 600,000 broke national records. The deer herd was an estimated 1.65 million animals entering this year’s deer hunting seasons. The […]

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