Updated on September 7, 2026. Statewide tags, baiting, Sundays, CWD, and the Southern Zone calendar live on the New York deer hunting page. This URL is what is different here: New York’s only national forest, a pasture-and-woodlot patchwork on the
Updated on September 7, 2026. Statewide bags, ten deer areas, licenses, and CWD zones sit on the Louisiana deer hunting page. This page is what is different on the Forest: still-hunt only, one deer a day, a 24-hour stand clock,
Updated on September 7, 2026. Statewide dates, county firearm lotteries, and CWD sampling sit on the Illinois deer hunting page. This page is what is different on the Forest: two ranger districts, checkerboard inholdings, sandstone hollows, and the pull-offs that
Updated on September 8, 2026. Statewide dates, licenses, county antlerless caps, and CWD maps sit on the Indiana deer hunting page. This page is what is different on the Forest: 1,450 miles of painted boundary, the Deam Wilderness, Pioneer Mothers,
Updated on September 7, 2026. Statewide tags, deer permit areas, and CWD live on the Minnesota deer hunting page. This page is what is different on Superior: three million acres of boreal woods, a million-acre wilderness inside it, moose country,
White Mountain National Forest deer hunting: 751,000 acres, three ranger districts, short any-deer days, Lincoln harvest numbers, and where to stay off the Kanc.
Updated on September 7, 2026. Statewide dates, stamps, CWD carcass rules, and Sunday hunting sit on the West Virginia deer hunting page. This page is what is different on the Monongahela: high-elevation spruce, eight wildernesses, a two-week gun season that
Updated on September 7, 2026. Statewide dates, bags, Earn a Buck, and CWD sampling sit on the Virginia deer hunting page. This page is what is different on George Washington and Jefferson National Forests: two forests under one Roanoke office,
Updated on September 7, 2026. Statewide dates, bags, Sunday rules, and CWD counties sit on the North Carolina deer hunting page. This page is what is different on Nantahala: a seven-day game-land overlay, no gun antlerless season, a Saturday-after-Thanksgiving gun
Updated on September 7, 2026. Statewide dates, bags, CWD counties, and license cost bands sit on the North Carolina deer hunting page. This page is what is different on Pisgah: three ranger districts split by Asheville, a game-land overlay, a
Updated on September 7, 2026. Statewide tags, baiting, antlerless DMUs, and carcass rules live on the Michigan deer hunting page. This URL is what is different on Hiawatha: two disconnected zones, four Motor Vehicle Use Maps, no motorized retrieval, and
Updated on September 7, 2026. Statewide dates, unit bags, and CWD counties sit on the Tennessee deer hunting page. This page is what is different on Cherokee: two forests split by a national park, a TWRA WMA overlay, South Cherokee
Texas leases and cheap OTC tags versus Midwest draws, short gun seasons, and real public land in Missouri. Axis on private Texas land; whitetail-only in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri.
Updated on September 7, 2026. Season dates, bag limits, baiting maps, and antlerless quotas move. Confirm them on the Wisconsin DNR deer page and the Michigan DNR deer regulations before you buy a tag or book a cabin. Wisconsin vs
Updated on September 7, 2026. Season dates, tag quotas, and baiting rules move by state. Confirm them on the linked DNR pages before you buy a tag or book a cabin. Pick the habitat before you pick a tree. If
Updated on September 7, 2026. Coues deer are a tiny desert subspecies of white-tailed deer. Mule deer are a different, larger western species. In Arizona and New Mexico they share the same mountains, and the tag in your pocket often
Public land vs a deer lease: cost per sit, pressure, Texas APH vs Iowa tags, and Pike County math from a hunter who does both.
Updated on September 7, 2026 Ottawa National Forest Chequamegon National Forest Size ~1 million acres of USFS land in Michigan’s western Upper Peninsula (Ottawa NF). Chequamegon side ~858,400 acres in northern Wisconsin; managed with Nicolet as one forest over 1.5
Updated on September 7, 2026. Sika deer and axis deer are the two spotted Asian deer Americans actually meet in the field, and they are not the same animal. A Maryland sika (Cervus nippon yakushimae) is a compact marsh specialist
The fastest way to tell a fallow deer from a white-tailed deer is the rack, then the rump. A mature fallow buck carries broad, shovel-shaped (palmate) antlers unlike any native North American deer except moose. Adult fallow also keep a
Yes. American arborvitae is winter deer candy. Rutgers rates Thuja occidentalis Frequently Severely Damaged (D). Western types and Green Giant are a step less, not a fence.
Updated on September 7, 2026. Ratings below are university lists, not a guarantee for your street. Confirm the linked extension pages before you order bare-root trees. Yes. Deer eat fruit trees — but they do not treat every species the
Updated on September 7, 2026. Ratings below are university browse lists, not a six-pack tag. Confirm local herd pressure before you fill a shade bed with Beacon impatiens and call it deer-proof. Yes. Deer eat impatiens. They are not “deer
Updated on September 7, 2026. Ratings below are university lists, not a guarantee for your street. Confirm current lists on the linked extension pages before you replant a whole hedge. Yes. Deer eat Knock Out roses — buds, blooms, new