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Field reports: Minnesota DNR’s deer management to be audited

Unread postby Horizontal Hunter » Mon May 04, 2015 10:28 am

At the urging of hunters and state legislators, a legislative audit will be conducted on the way the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources manages the state’s deer population.

The decision to do the audit was made April 17 by the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor. A background paper issued by the auditor’s office listed three possible “evaluation issues”:

1. How does the DNR estimate and monitor Minnesota’s deer population, and how do those methods compare with other estimation and monitoring approaches?

2. How does the DNR establish the state’s deer population goals, and how does this compare with methods used by other states?

3. To what extent do the DNR’s deer population goals reflect an appropriate balance between stakeholder interests?

The Minnesota Deer Hunters Association has expressed dissatisfaction with the DNR’s ongoing deer population goal-setting process, saying hunters’ views were not adequately weighed. But others on the goal-setting committees convened by the DNR felt deer hunters’ opinions were adequately represented.

The auditor’s office said in its background paper announcing the audit that assessing the DNR’s deer population estimates would require technical expertise and that the office may need to hire a consultant familiar with the various factors involved in estimating wildlife populations.

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http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/outdoo ... be-audited

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