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... Quality deer management (QDM) is a growing practice in the Southeast and promotes densities in balance with habitat conditions and healthy buck:doe ratios (Miller and Marchinton 1995). In most cases, the management prescription that is applied to achieve these objectives is increased antlerless
harvest. Populations maintained at a low equilibrium by coyotes through single state regulation may decline even further with increased antlerless harvest because this harvest will most likely be additive (Nelson and Mech 1981, Messier and Cr�te 1985). However, if coyotes are regulating deer populations through multi-stable equilibria as we believe, then antlerless harvest programs that do not account for deer density could theoretically result in deer populations that are driven to a density from which they are unable to recover without help.