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Grandmaster
I don't understand shortening the firearms season at all, especially considering the DNR's claim they want to reduce Indiana deer herds by 25% over the next 5 years.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Indiana’s white-tail deer are one of the attractions that lure visitors to state parks and nature reserves every spring, but their prolific breeding habits are cause for consternation.
The species, once vanished from Indiana, has grown in such abundance that state officials are now considering a plan to strategically reduce the deer population by 25 percent within the next five years.
The proposed plan is dependent on hunters increasing the number of deer they take and includes targeting female deer whose fecundity — the ability to produce offspring easily — is linked to a record number of deer-related complaints from farm operators, motorists and landowners.