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Post by Woody Williams on Jul 10, 2021 10:38:06 GMT -5
I am participating in the IU deer survey study. They have asked me the following and I thought this would be a good discussion topic here. Give me your thoughts on The DNR Harvest Report (CheckIN) .
The DNR Harvest Report (CheckIN) collects the following information from hunters:
Customer ID
County where deer was harvested
What land the deer was harvested in (private or public)
If public, what property was the deer harvested in
Hunting equipment type
License type
Harvest date and time
Harvested deer gender
Whether the deer taken in a deer reduction zone
If taken in deer reduction zone, whether you want this to count towards your deer reduction zone bag limit
Now, I'd like you to:
Choose a subset of the items above that you think are particularly important to the DNR. You can pick as many or as few of the items above as you wish. Please list the items you chose below, ranking them by the most important first. Remember there is no right answer, try to put yourself in the DNR's shoes for this exercise.
Please explain why you chose this ordering in as much detail as possible.
What are you basing this order on?
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Post by firstwd on Jul 10, 2021 15:24:18 GMT -5
Is that seriously one of their questions to the study participants?
Personally, all that information is important and I don't see 9ne being more important than the other. Information is best in volume and as a collective.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jul 10, 2021 17:42:57 GMT -5
Is that seriously one of their questions to the study participants? Personally, all that information is important and I don't see 9ne being more important than the other. Information is best in volume and as a collective. What is more “importanter” ? 😉 And why? |
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Post by bill9068 on Jul 11, 2021 8:36:09 GMT -5
Myself, I say what county it was harvested in. Gives a snapshot of deer populations based on that 3 month hunting season.
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Post by treetop on Jul 11, 2021 8:36:23 GMT -5
Is that seriously one of their questions to the study participants? Personally, all that information is important and I don't see 9ne being more important than the other. Information is best in volume and as a collective. I would agree they all are important but your asking so I will try but may change after reading other people answers |
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Post by treetop on Jul 11, 2021 8:41:17 GMT -5
County deer taken
This gives them a snapshot of deer taken and were limits need increase or decrease in what areas of the state
Deer reduction zone
Again a way to adjust tags
Sex
This again gives them insight to adjust doe tags and some idea of buck to doe this would be a bit of a challenge being a one buck state but with customer ID they would know if I filled both tags
Customer ID
Not sure it matters in managing the herd but would matter in keeping the surveys honest and not filled out by someone with a alternative idea
Hunting equipment
Kind of a toss up not sure how many guys like me stay with a bow the entire time I’d think it’s a small percentage Obviously by the numbers most deer are taken during gun Unless your trying to cater to one group a crossbow long bow or compound are the same just as a handgun shotgun or ML in the eyes of the tag
Time and date
Not sure what kind of system they have but that info would seem to be available as you need to check your deer in a aloted time frame
License type
Again I would think this info would be available to them they sell the tags and tagged to your customer ID number
Public or private land
Other then trying to figure out if a deer was killed on public or private I don’t see much value in this question but
What public ground was deer taken
If they are using this info to better a WMA then yes the question above is important I’m not sure what the split is for our state but I know I’ve taken my fair share on public ground especially during the early years of the park hunts
I don’t have a opinion on reduction tags we don’t have them here so I’ve haven’t looked in to how you check a deer in with that tag or why you would want it to count against it
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Post by bartiks on Jul 22, 2021 22:33:53 GMT -5
I agree on the county they were harvested, it kind of goes hand in hand with public or private as well. Private land could tell you the number of hunters on private vs. public and vice versa. Both of those used in conjunction could establish a trend within that county.
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Post by deadeer on Jul 23, 2021 0:17:01 GMT -5
My first thought was already brought up. All that info is in the database when you check in, so why do they need to basically ask same questions again?
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