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<blockquote data-quote="scn" data-source="post: 5768590" data-attributes="member: 1859"><p>When I started working for the agency in 1977, the statewide deer kill was around 20,000. During our agency orientation, we spent a day with the wildlife division going over various biological programs. Larry Marcum was the deer project leader at the time (he later served for many years as the BEST Chief of Game the agency has had). Larry talked to us about the new-fangled computer model of the state's deer herd. He said the model showed that sometime in the coming years, the TN deer kill would peak at 75,000. My immediate thought was that guy must be smoking dope. I thought there was no way that we would ever kill that many deer.</p><p></p><p>In the next few years it was an all hands on deck with both biologists and officers to trap, dart, lasso (yes), etc deer in any way possible and relocate them across to state to restoration areas closed to legal hunting. A major part of officers jobs was to babysit them day or night. It seemed that a legal deer kill of 100 in a county represented the tipping point where the deer were there to stay. The "legal" kill in my county was 16 the year I started working. They normally kill 700-800 a year now. </p><p></p><p>The deer did not naturally recover in this state. It was a lot of very hard work by a bunch of folks that gave us what we sort of take for granted today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scn, post: 5768590, member: 1859"] When I started working for the agency in 1977, the statewide deer kill was around 20,000. During our agency orientation, we spent a day with the wildlife division going over various biological programs. Larry Marcum was the deer project leader at the time (he later served for many years as the BEST Chief of Game the agency has had). Larry talked to us about the new-fangled computer model of the state's deer herd. He said the model showed that sometime in the coming years, the TN deer kill would peak at 75,000. My immediate thought was that guy must be smoking dope. I thought there was no way that we would ever kill that many deer. In the next few years it was an all hands on deck with both biologists and officers to trap, dart, lasso (yes), etc deer in any way possible and relocate them across to state to restoration areas closed to legal hunting. A major part of officers jobs was to babysit them day or night. It seemed that a legal deer kill of 100 in a county represented the tipping point where the deer were there to stay. The "legal" kill in my county was 16 the year I started working. They normally kill 700-800 a year now. The deer did not naturally recover in this state. It was a lot of very hard work by a bunch of folks that gave us what we sort of take for granted today. [/QUOTE]
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