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.

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!

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

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

KS DNR sounds like they are doing a lot

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

yes

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

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.

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

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!

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.