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does, separating yearlings from their mothers and fighting with each other. Accidental road encounters with deer become far more likely, and not just here in the county. State Farm estimates that 1.5 million vehicles collide with deer every year in the United States, resulting in 150 motorist deaths and $1.1 billion in vehicle damages.
So keeping deer populations in check is important to the deer and to us. Research shows that contraceptive drugs are not yet very effective in controlling wild deer populations. Regulated hunting is the only way at present to curb population sizes and maintain healthy herds.
Since the 1990s, Virginia hunters kill around 200,000 deer annually, about 40 percent of them does. Officials at the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries establish how many deer can be taken each year by hunters. The number varies across the Commonwealth since herd sizes and management objectives of each region differ. Obviously the more information managers have the better they can manage the herds.
Which brings
us to deercams
Researchers at the University of Missouri have come up with a novel way to collect information needed for the state’s deer management programs. They outfit deer with tiny wireless video cameras that send back images of daily activities.
Imagine a deer’s eye view of
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