QDMA hit a major milestone the other day when it’s 50,000th member signed up. This great accomplishment is due to all of the hard work and time its members have contributed to promote the organization and quality deer management.

As a member and a founding board member of a local branch, I would like to say THANK YOU to everyone that has joined the organization, donated to its cause or implemented its practices. And to give everyone some perspective on the group’s growth, there were just 10,000 members in 2000, and local branches have grown from 30 to 275 in the last four years alone.

QDM is the “management philosophy/practice that unites landowners, hunters, and managers in a common goal of producing biologically and socially balanced deer herds within existing environmental, social, and legal constraints. This approach typically involves the protection of young bucks (yearlings and some 2.5 year-olds) combined with an adequate harvest of female deer to maintain a healthy population in balance with existing habitat conditions and landowner desires. This level of deer management involves the production of quality deer (bucks, does, and fawns), quality habitat, quality hunting experiences, and, most importantly, quality hunters.

You can read the full press release as well as learn all about the organization and its recommended practices on the QDMA website.

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