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Property Assessment
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FAQ
CAMERA CENSUS

Why guess when you can know?

Most of us spend a great deal of time and money trying to grow big bucks on our property. When you devote this many resources into your deer management program, why would you guess about how many and which deer to harvest to achieve your goals when you can know?

Conducting a camera census allows you to make educated and sound deer harvest decisions. This relatively new method is the most advanced and most conclusive deer survey available today. A camera census is the best way to determine the current status of your deer herd or to monitor the success of your deer management program.

During a camera census, 80-95% of the deer on your property can be captured on film. With these pictures, our staff of certified biologists are able to age and catalog each buck and provide you with a leather-bound portfolio containing nearly every buck on your property.

With the pictures from the census, management decisions of whether to harvest or protect specific bucks, as well as determining the appropriate doe harvest, can be made before the “Moment of Truth” in the field. The portfolio is also an excellent tool for educating hunters on how to age deer in the field.

While our clients (landowner and hunters) are most interested in seeing pictures of the best bucks on the property being surveyed, the results of the census provide our biologists with the needed information about the deer herd to make sound management decisions that will put you on the fast track to achieving your deer management goals.

Many population parameters can be quantified from this census. Some of the most useful information collected during this survey includes:

  • Total number of deer in population (total number of bucks, does, and fawns)
  • Deer density estimates (i.e. acres per deer, or deer per square mile)
  • Adult sex ratio
  • Fawn production / Recruitment rate
  • Buck quality
  • Buck age structure
  • Doe / buck dominant areas on the property
  • Overall health of deer herd