Michigan Quality Deer Management Association

Become a Member

6 Good Reasons to Join the QDMA

Reason #1: Learn how to achieve a balanced deer population and enhance hunting enjoyment, while improving your herd’s overall health and productivity.

Reason #2: Have access to over 500 of the nation’s most knowledgeable experts in the field of deer biology, research, habitat and management available to personally answer all your questions.

Reason #3: Receive the most up-to-date educational information with the most advanced and accurate data available from the nations’ top universities and wildlife professionals, to make informed deer and habitat management decisions.

Reason #4: Learn what plants have the most nutrition and are the most attractive to deer. Learn how you can improve your land to produce quality deer by planting the most productive, nutritious wildlife habitat your land can yield.

Reason #5: Learn how to design food plots specifically for bow or firearm hunting.

Reason #6: Learn how having a moderate number of deer, creating and maintaining good habitat, protecting young bucks and harvesting an adequate number of does, will actually increase fawn productivity and survival, create a more natural and balanced deer herd and allow you to harvest more, bigger and healthier deer!

QDM is not TDM

Quality deer management is not trophy deer management! While quality deer management will help produce bigger bucks, the main focus for QDM is to manage the deer population to create a healthy herd in balance with the existing habitat conditions. Involvement in the QDMA extends a hunter’s role from mere consumer to deer manager. Quality deer management, in part, is the use of restraint in harvesting young bucks combined with an adequate harvest of female deer to maintain a more natural, healthy, socially balanced deer herd.

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QDMA Mission Statement:

The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) is a non-profit wildlife conservation organization dedicated to promoting sustainable, high quality white-tailed deer populations, wildlife habitats, and ethical hunting experiences through education, research, and management in partnership with hunters, landowners, natural resource professionals, and the public.

90+% of all 1.5-year-old bucks are killed each year in Michigan .

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