Brandon Lyddon, Conservation Agent
The Missouri Dept. of Conservation (MDC) has a Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP) that can help landowners and deer hunters manage deer on their properties by allowing them and hunters they designate to buy additional firearms permits to take antlerless deer on the properties above and beyond regular-season harvest limits when there is excessive deer damage to crops and/or to maintain a healthy deer population.
DMAP also provides landowners with science-based methods and information to address a spectrum of other local deer-management goals, including Quality Deer Management (QDM) objectives. Any private property of at least 500 acres is eligible for the program and individual parcels of land, regardless of ownership, may be combined to satisfy the acreage requirements if no parcel of land is more than a half-mile (by air) from the boundary of another parcel being combined to form an enrolled DMAP property.
To learn more about DMAP, including enrollment, you can visit MDC online at mdc.mo.gov/dmap, or contact your local MDC private land conservationist or conservation agent.
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