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Relocating White-tail Deer Not Effective

Last Updated: June 04, 2009 Related resource areas: Wildlife Damage Management

Numerous research trials show that this method simply doesn’t work, as outlined by K-State wildlife specialist Charlie Lee.

Released May 29, 2009

MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Some people…and communities…prefer non-lethal approaches to controlling overabundant white-tail deer numbers. One such alternative is called “capture and translocation”: as the name implies, capturing a number of deer and then re-locating them to a suitable habitat. Numerous research trials show that this method simply doesn’t work, as outlined this week by K-State wildlife specialist Charlie Lee.

5 minute audio interview, http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/News/Audio_filesWK/OUT-052109.mp3

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