It doesn't give methodology in any detail but this is at least a decent qualitative (objective?) view of some of the things we hens are squawkin' about in our barnyard.
For instance, in Parke County where I hunt a lot:
- 46% of the county is deer habitat
- it took roughly 5 days (efforts) of firearm hunting to kill a deer in 2016, 12 days in 2013
- landowner attitude is fairly strongly negative but improved slightly from 2008-2013
- hunter attitude is a bit positive and barely improved from 2013-2016
- antlerless kill was down from its high in 2012
- antlered kill was pretty flat but increased in 2016
- rates of deer/vehicle collisions (DVC) were down about 20% from their highs in the late 2000's early teens
- % of antlerless in the kill was pretty consistently in the low to mid 60s but was down to 56% in 2016. Only one other time was it in the 50s from 2005-2016
Highlights from Monroe County where I also hunt a lot:
- 82% is deer habitat
- it took only 2.5 days of firearms hunting to kill a deer in 2016, 9 or so in 2013
- landowner attitude is negative but improving a bit
- hunter attitude is moderately positive and getting slightly worse
- deer vehicle collision rate is flat to slightly rising
