Population Statistics

Eurasian watermilfoil: long-term trends in unmanaged populations The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources conducts and supports a variety of projects that improve our understanding of aquatic …

Under such stable conditions, managers have found that buck harvest trends closely track deer population trends. Information from harvest registration and aging, along with other data, is used in a …

However, trends in roadside observations of does and fawns, especially in forested regions, have tended to match expectations based on other measures of nutritional condition of the herd and …

Fawn to doe ratios collected in late summer give information on fawn recruitment and survival and are used as an input into the formula for annual deer herd abundance estimation. Fawn to doe ratios …

Population Statistics & Trends Fawn to doe ratios and yearling buck percentages are used to help estimate the deer herd size annually and is the starting point for setting antlerless harvest quotas.

Harvest Statistics

The primary objective of Long Term Trend (LTT) Lakes monitoring is to document long-term trends in lake water chemistry. This data set also provides context for water chemistry in other lakes in terms …

CWD was first detected in Wisconsin in 2002 when three deer taken by hunters in the fall of 2001 near the village of Mount Horeb, about 10 miles southwest of Madison, tested positive. Since that time an …

However, trends in roadside observations of does and fawns, especially in forested regions, have tended to match expectations based on other measures of nutritional condition of the herd and …