Use of composite hunting mortality rates produced realistic estimates for adult deer populations in 2 zones, but not for the third, where estimation was hindered by regulatory restrictions on antlerless deer harvest. In addition, the population estimates we calculated were generally higher than those ...
The current regulations, for instance, allow the killing of a coyote as early as October but do not require tagging until after the hunting season ends in mid-March. This makes it almost impossible to know how many coyotes are killed in a given year until well after the hunting season ...