Good point, Bruce.

The timeframe is also an issue (I didn't realize that the record books went back to 1830!). I know that in Virginia from the late 1800's through the firstcouple ofdecades of the 1900's whitetail deer were practical extinct in Virgina (only a few hundred deer in the entire state). Ironic, since the whitetail deer's scientific name is "Odocoileus virginianus", which I believe is because this species of deer was first sighted in Virginia. They were re-introduced in a large, fenced preseve in the early 1900's and then the fences were taken down. Now there are almost a million deer and they're actually a nuicance in many counties.

BTW: There is very little deer quality management in Virginia.