Here is an ESPN article from last spring after the 2009 season
http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/h...ory?id=3999776
In Ohio, where reducing the deer herd is job one for the DNR's Division of Wildlife, a record 252,017 deer were killed during the 2008-09 hunting season, an increase of
almost 20,000 deer over the previous year and the most since the previous record of 237,316 were harvested in 2006-2007.
"I was very pleased with the season. Hunters were encouraged to take more does and they continued to put
heavy pressure on the antlerless deer," says David M. Graham, chief of the Division of Wildlife. "But
work remains to lower the deer population, particularly in eastern Ohio." This, in a state that resumed legalized deer hunting in 1943, when 168 whitetails were killed in the three-county area open to hunting.
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