The numbers are in. The total Deer take for 2014 was 238,672, down 2.0% from 2013. You can find the reports on NYS DEC website by following this link: http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/42232.html For the WMU we hunt in the number of bucks taken dropped slightly from the 2013 season:
2014
WMU BUCKS BUCKS /SQ MI
5H 2,191 0.7
2013
WMU BUCKS BUCKS /SQ MI
5H 2,498 0.8
I did not see anything about the BEER harvest!?
The reason for less deer is because the ghost of Greeny keeps shoring them away