No need for a closed deer season, just need to manipulate our doe harvest regiment. Ft. Rucker used to host some of the highest deer densities in the state but now combination of 2 doe a day for several years and low fawn recruitment has resulted in a very low deer density. Areas of the state still can kill 2 does a day and it not hurt the population but in many places it has. Offer incentive to kill predators and establish zones with differing management needs. If an isolated pocket or landowner needs to kill more does then apply for tags and have a biologist issue the tags. Doesnt have to be just state biologists either...it can be a cooperative effort between private and public sectors....just my thoughts
I want to know what the heck people do with all the daggum doe meat in this state! I usually only take one deer per season, because that's all my freezer can take and I live with just my brother. I cook something with deer in it AT LEAST once a week and I almost always have some ground meat and stew meat left by next season. I've opened up a walk-in cooler and seen four or five doe carcasses that have been hanging with skin on for weeks, all the work of one person with a bow. Now I know plenty of folks who give away excess meat to friends, family, people in need, but I CAN NOT STAND people who kill a doe just to kill a deer and don't hunt for meat.