It is a deer hunter’s nightmare – you heard through the grapevine the buck you have been watching all summer was killed by a local farmer, orchardist or gardener using a crop depredation tag.
To determine where this potentially occurs, the National Deer Association (NDA) surveyed state and provincial wildlife agencies for its 2023 Deer Report and asked whether their jurisdiction allowed antlered bucks to be harvested on damage or depredation tags.
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