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Archery: is it working? ( Archery: will it work?)

Archery: is it working? ( Archery: will it work?). Mark Weckel PhD candidate; CUNY Mianus River Gorge Preserve. Deer densities are high. 60 deer sq mile Every 200 yards, there’s a deer. The decision to manage deer. What do about high deer densities is contentious

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Archery: is it working? ( Archery: will it work?)

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  1. Archery: is it working?(Archery: will it work?) Mark Weckel PhD candidate; CUNY Mianus River Gorge Preserve

  2. Deer densities are high • 60 deer sq mile • Every 200 yards, there’s a deer

  3. The decision to manage deer • What do about high deer densities is contentious • How to manage deer in suburbia is hard

  4. Suburbia + a lot of deer + archers ?

  5. Is archery working in the short-term? • Don’t look to forest. . . Slow recovery with time lags • Look at the deer population

  6. Mianus Deer Management Program (DMP) • 6 years of archery • 1000 acres of MRGP and private land

  7. Mark and monitor female deer Susan

  8. Deer Density Estimates 39 deer/sq mile

  9. Preliminary Results 32% Reduction 60 deer/sq mile 39 deer/sq mile

  10. Is archery working in the long-term? • Question of deer population dynamics • Question of hunter satisfaction, recruitment, and retention

  11. Deer population growth • Survival – monitoring marked deer • Birth rates - cameras • Immigration – DNA

  12. The core of the DMPs: Hunters • Are harvests sustainable? • Do we have enough hunters? • Do hunters want to participate in controlled DMPs?

  13. Female Harvest over time

  14. Do we have enough hunters? 4000 acres

  15. Age of Archers 48 years

  16. Age at first hunt 60 % of current DMP hunters started hunted before age 25

  17. We have a 25 year gap in hunter recruitment

  18. Do hunters want to participate?

  19. Are hunters satisfied? • Despite the fact that of returning hunters, • 63% have seen less deer since starting the DMP • 50% find harvesting female deer more difficult

  20. Conclusion • Short term – Archeryseems to be working. • Long term: • Hunter recruitment • Hunter satisfaction

  21. AMNH • Bedford Audubon Society • CUNY • Dr. Jason Munshi-South (Baruch) • Dr. Robert Rockwell (AMNH) • Dr. Marc Siddall (AMNH) • Dr. Page West (AMNH) • Camp Fire Club of America • Greenwich Audubon Society • Greenwich Sportsman Land Owners Association • Mianus River Gorge Preserve • Mianus Deer Council • Pound Ridge Land Conservancy • Pound Ridge Police Dept. • Stan McGuignan • Rod Christie • Town of Redding • Westchester/Putnam QDMA • Westchester Bow Hunters • Westmoreland Sanctuary • Westchester Parks • Anastasia Wincorn

  22. QUESTIONS?

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