How Regulations Affect Deer Hunting In North Carolina and Ohio

North Carolina Ohio

Interest

This topic interested me because I am a hunter in North Carolina and Ohio.

I noticed significant differences between the sizes of deer in Ohio and North Carolina, and I wondered what caused those differences.

Driving Question:

Do hunting regulations affect deer populations, and if so, how?

What are the precautions you have to take when you want to deer hunt?

How is the deers health affected?

Thesis Statement:

The strict hunting guidelines effect the population of the deer, growth of the deers body's, and safety of hunter during deer hunting season.

Product

For my product, I mounted a deer from North Carolina. I have documented the process and brought in the final product.

Food for Deer in North Carolina

In North Carolina there is usually only briers and pine cones for deer to eat.

When the farmers pick the fields they don't leave any of the crops for the deer to feed off of.

Also, when they log they replace them with pine trees, which does not allow proper food resources for the deer.

Food for Deer in Ohio In Ohio there are many things for deer to eat such as

acorns, shrubs, corn, and beans. They are able to eat all of these things because in

Ohio they leave hardwoods when they log and they also leave crops in the fields for the deer to eat.

Places for deer to live In Ohio, when they log they

log one block of woods but they have to leave the woods around it in hardwoods until that block of woods grows back.

In North Carolina, many farmers would rather plant pine trees because they will reproduce faster and the loggers can get more money for them.

Size of the deer

In North Carolina the deer are not able to grow very big because there is nothing for them to eat such as soy beans and corn.

In Ohio they are able to grow big because the deer have food to eat such as corn and soy beans.

Size Comparison

North Carolina Ohio

What can we do to help?

Growing food plots Growing hardwood trees Get farmers to leave some crops in the fields Enact legislation to help give deer a chance to grow

larger and healthier

Successes/Challenges

Successes: I learned actually what causes the differences

between the deer I learned how to mount a deer so I can do it myself It helps me do better of how I can help out the deer

Challenges: It took a really long time to mount the deer head I procrastinated on my paper

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