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Wired To Hunt Podcast

Ep. 335: 2020 State of the Whitetail Union with Kip Adams

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show I'm joined by QDMA Director of Conservation, Kip Adams, to review the most notable trends and current issues impacting deer and deer hunting in America in 2020.

Topics discussed:

  • What is the QDMA Whitetail Report?
  • How would Kip grade the most recent deer hunting season data?
  • The most notable trends in the deer hunting world
  • The latest on buck harvest numbers
  • Why are doe harvest numbers declining?
  • How age structure has changed in our national deer harvest over the years
  • Updates on EHD and CWD across the country
  • Anything new on dealing with CWD?
  • Legislation that hunters can help push to the finishline
  • More on hunter recruitment

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Transcript

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0:51.1

Welcome to the Wire to Hunt Podcast.

0:53.9

Welcome to the Wire to Hunt Podcast, brought to you by ONX.

1:05.9

Today we've got KIP Adams.

1:08.1

Now a lot of you are probably familiar with KIP.

1:10.3

He works over at the Quality Deer Management Association.

1:14.7

He's been on the podcast many times before and most of those have been for this state

1:20.0

of the White Tilly Union podcast that we have each year.

1:24.0

KIP will tell you more about this in a second, but a very high level overview of what we're

1:27.9

going to do here is review a document, a report that KIP helps develop every year which

1:33.5

highlights the top stories and issues and data across the deer hunting world each year.

1:39.6

So looking at harvest data, looking at big trends, looking at various issues that are

1:44.4

of importance at this time for deer and deer hunting, that's the kind of stuff we're

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