DEC comment period on DMP’s

[Gill-T]

The DEC has a proposal that would allow for private land owners to have unlimited DMP tags. Please take time to make your opinions known

 

https://dec.ny.gov/news/press-releases/2025/6/dec-proposes-changes-to-deer-hunting-regulations

Edited June 25 by Gill-T

[GAMBLER]

This will not be good for anyone with land near Mennonites.............

[Kingfisher06]

44 minutes ago, GAMBLER said:

This will not be good for anyone with land near Mennonites.............

Who is running the DEC, Geico? 

[Hop]

Maybe this is the year not to purchase a license to hit them in the pocket book for making such a drastic decision without hunters input. 

[Gill-T]

Ya, I don’t understand the whole “too many deer in NYS” stance the DEC takes. Other than around major population centers of cities, the carrying capacity of deer is no where near exceeded. I look at browse whenever I am in the woods in the winter chasing small game and the evidence for overpopulation is just not there. My experience hunting in other states confirms to me there is room for expansion of the NY deer herd. 

[Gator]

We have never come close to filling our DMP tags, even with the fellows who hunt my properties encouraged to take as many doe as they want. We can get four DMP apiece! That's a bunch of meat. Even the guy we nicknamed "Killah" only takes four or five doe a year lol - maybe every other year he has to have a DMP signed over to him. And yes, the meat is well utilized.

 

The doe are really vulnerable when they start to herd up in the early winter. With the holiday hunt, there's some real damage that can be done. I'm all for a healthy herd, but this could result in local "doe deserts".

[Chromeslayer]

This is for DMAP tags not DMP tags... 2 different things...they want it unlimited on the amount of DMAP tags they can issue/transfer to 1 hunter