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Does your DNR provide you with a observation diary? Here in Kansas the DNR will mail out observation diarys for hunters to fill in at the end of their hunts. It requests the day, time and animal (S) seen. It wants to know if and how many turkeys,deer,bobcat,yotes,opossum,raccoon fox, mule deer,and otters a hunter sees in a hunt. The length of each hunt is requested and am.,or pm. It also request the county and zone hunted. I have participated in this for several years now and think it is a great tool for our DNR to get a good estamation of our game population. I feel lucky to live in a state where the DNR takes their management seriously and also feel it has a great bearing on the quality of our deer heard.

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Wisconsin DNR doesn't have that but wish they did, sounds like a great idea! We do have to take the deer and register them at a registration station!

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in rhode Island not for deer but voluntary sightings of turkey poults and reports for lobster fishing amounts

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They don't here. You might get a random survey they send out but that usually only comes 3 - 5 yearsapart. They will send the surveyfor a specific season and don't want to know what deer you have taken in other seasons that year. The ask if you harvested one in that specificseason. If it was buck or doe.What days you hunted during that specific season. Rather crude but better then nothing.

Their mottoseems to be... manage for quanity and let the quality take care of itself.Actually it has worked quit well but a lot has to do with the land that was put intoCRP the last 20 years. Now thata lot of land is coming out in the next 5 years... I will be curious to seeif the quality goes down.

Tim

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We barley haveenough money to keep the lights on[&:]

KS DNR sounds like they are doing a lot

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yes

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They dont here, Chris.....but for what I'm paying to come out there, next year.....they ought to treat you residents like KINGS!:D

I'm glad they do this for you all. I keep a journal on my own that I share with the DNR wildlife biologist, here......but it's nothing they have anything to do with.

Great program.

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Maryland does. Matter of fact, I get two each year... one in the mail about a week after I get my license, and one in the mail about a month after the season ends, just to make sure!

Ken

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Its a good program MOTOWN, Wish we had something like it here in Mich.
I know when I was hunting Ft Riley you had to fill out half a slip to let them know what area you were hunting that day, and fill the other half out (recording if you were successful or not and what game you seen that day) and put it in the drop boxafter you finished your hunt for the day.

Here in Mich you usualy get one, if your lucky enough to get drawn for a special permit (Turkey, Bear, or Elk)
Heck,we dont even have to check or call in a deer, They have counters on the overpasses of the freeway count deer on cars and x it by a fictious number, a pretty piss poor way to keep track of things.

But then if you are a real MOTOWNHONKEY you know this already!

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There isn't anything like this that I know of in Iowa. Maybe it just might be that I haven't payed attention to if there is one or not. I keep a log for my own personal uses.

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Nope.

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Ct has survey cards that you have to fill out! One for turkey, one for deer. Date hunted, sightings, area hunted, etc.You must send it in within 10 days of the end of season, or you become ineligible for the next years season. They have a questionnaire, asking about bear, grouse, and other animals sighted during the previous season,that you must fill out when you buy your licence. They also have report cards that you have to send in within 24 hours of any animal taken!

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Indiana has a an Archery Survey program.

Here is the info:


If you plan to bowhunt for deer in the early archery season, wildlife researchers want to borrow your eyes and ears. DNR biologists are looking for 3,000 deer archery hunters to record the wildlife they see while hunting from Oct. 1 through Nov. 16.

Sightings by bowhunters of wildlife such as bobcat, coyote, red fox, gray fox, gray and fox squirrel, bobwhite quail, wild turkey and ruffed grouse are used to monitor population trends from year to year.
If you would like to be a participant or your address has changed, please send your name and address no later than Sept. 15, 2007 to:
Archery Survey
Division of Fish & Wildlife
562 DNR Road
Mitchell, IN 47446
Participants will be selected for the 2007 season based on county of residence and will be uniformly distributed around the state. If you were a participant in 2006, and your address has not changed, you do not need to send in your name again for 2007.

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Though I have never been to Detroit, I am the original Motownhonkey!:D:D

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You should it's GOSPEL:D

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:DIll take your word for it.

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Ohio DNRhas the "Bowhunters Survey"

http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/wild_resourcessubhomepage/ResearchandSurveys/huntingdeerbowsurvey/tabid/5803/Default.aspx

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I have hunted in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Maryland most of my life, and recently Tennessee. Delaware and Pennsylvania have nothing of this sort. Maryland places a good deal of emphasis on it, and has a good program, as was mentioned earlier in this thread. What I find interesting is that Tennessee does not have anything like this, yet I easily pay five times the money in TN for a resident license as it costs in any of the other three. Go figure...

Jon
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