I think that the earn a buck system will lead to a more balanced deer herd and lower overall population but i think it really has some problems. My family owns land in central wisconsin (57B) and western wisconsin(61). This year unit 61 in buffalo county is earn a buck while the more heavily deer poplutated unit 57B is not.

The problem is that there simply arent that many deer on our land in Buffalo county and it was a challenge to even tag a doe. I really dont understand why unit 61 needs e-a-b. There is very limited browsing down in the winter and there are even numerous cedar trees that go untouched. The one cedar tree on our land in 57b doesnt have a single branch below 8 feet from the deer.

What i guess im trying to say is that the WI DNR needs to find a better method of determining population targets and finding current deer populations by unit.