Deer Permits For Farmers
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pathies and anti-hunting by non
hunting landowners.
Ironically, at the same time
some farmers surrounded by pri
vate woodlands report seeing a
hundred or more deer in their crop
fields at night, hunters have been
complaining about low numbers of
deer on public lands and blaming
liberal deer harvesting rules and a
perceived lack of proper game
lands management for deer.
Farmer frustration over deer
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damage has come from the fact
that their crops have beat feeding
deer, and they have had no easy
recourse.
A fact about crop-damaging
deer is that they are mostly active
at night, preventing effective
control.
They also can quickly become
accustomed to devices intended to
scare them away from crops.
Further, some farmers who have
destroyed deer in their crop fields
have reported that following such
sym-
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kills, than have been significant
incidents of vandalism to their
equipment, such as slashed tractor
tires.
Though mostly unable to name
individuals responsible for the
acts, the farmers have said they
suspect local deer hunting enthu
siasts as most likely to have done
the vandalism. The suspicion is
that the acts are done as a sort of
terrorism to dissuade the fanner
from killing rdditional crop
damaging deer.
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Another problem for the
farmer especially today with
economic pressures forcing many
to utilize idle land is that most
of the crop-damaging deer spend
most of their time in adjacent
woodlands, not on the farm.
In many cases, those adjacent
woodlands ate not open to public
hunting, and the deer population is
little affected by public hunting on
the crop-damaged farm.
Also, regular deer hunting sea
sons are held when crops are at
harvest stage and fields either pro
vide the deer with dense conceale
ment and food from a mature crop,
or offer nothing to attract or hold
the deer on the farm.
Thus the opportunity for a regu
lar season deer h inter to kill crop
damaging deer Is limited.
From the hunter’s pointof view,
hunting deer-damaged farms is
generally best during the early
archery season, before general sea
son hunting pressures force the
deer to seek refuge on non-public
woodlands.
A little more than two years ago
the Game Commission attempted
to better resolve the problem of
farmers by instituting a Deer Dam
age Area Program, also referred to
as the commission’s “Hot Spot”
program.
Under that program, farmers
must allow public deer hunting on
their land. Signs are posted along
the perimeter of the property, and,
upon request by a hunter, the reg
ional headquarters of the Game
Commission also directs hunters to
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According to some farmers
enrolled in the program, success
has been limited.
Generally the complaint from
farmers has been that the general
hunting public has not had much
success in killing deer because the
deer take refuge on surrounding
private lands.
Last year, hunters on Hot Spot
farms were allowed to harvest deer
during extended seasons.
This year, daring the regular
antlered season, hunters with
anterless deer licenses will be
allowed to fill that tag.
The new permitting program is
different It targets a period of time
when hunting and crop protection
effectiveness can coincide.
As as a prerequisite to eligibility
to participate, fanners must have
their farms enrolled in the Com
mission’s Hot Spot program for
two years.
After that condition has been
met, the farmer can make an appli
cation for a deer control permit
(Can be made throught a district
wildlife conservation officer
(WCO) on a Game Commission
form.)
At the time of application, the
applicant is to provide a copy of a
deed or lease that shows the applic
ant to either be the owner of the
land or have control of the hunting
rights on the land.
In addition to the state’s general
ban on Sunday hunting, on general
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