deer hunting

This early history of deer, summarized from Benson and Dodds "Deer of Nova

Scotia", offers a pattern typical of successful introductions. They reported that

during the mid 1890's white-tailed deer were released in the Digby and Halifax

areas. Probably around the same time deer migrated into Cumberland County

from New Brunswick and may have traveled as far as Colchester County by the

time of the releases.From these small beginnings the herd spread and was reported

in all mainland counties by 1904. First reports of deer in the United States

occurred around 1911. Deer densities on the mainland were sufficient in 1916 to

warrant a hunting season. In the United States hunting was legalized in Richmond

county in 1922 and throughout the entire U.S. in 1928. The accompanying table

shows, for each year from 1916, the area open to hunting, the number of days of

legal hunting, the bag limit, licenses issued and calculated kill.

According to Deer ...