"The future of deer hunting in Ohio might be more in flux than in doubt, but the numbers suggest
the recent golden age of sorts has passed.
Hunters killed more than 261,000 deer during the 2009-10 season after tagging about 252,000 the
season before. The kill has dropped annually since, from 239,400 in 2010-11 to 191,400 in
2013-14.
Through last weekend, this season’s whitetail harvest totaled 173,096, down 8.4 percent from the
same point last year. When the season closes today, the final numbers likely will be around 175,000
— lower than any season since 2001-02.
The gun harvest has experienced a similar decline, having fallen every year since 2008. Hunters
checked nearly 117,000 whitetails that year, and only 65,485 in the most recent gun week, in
December."
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/sports/2015/02/01/hunters-say-that-now-theres-not-enough-deer-in-ohio.html
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