The DNR’s efforts to control the deer herd in Door and Kewaunee counties include the final gun hunt of 2021 starting on Friday, December 24.  The holiday hunt allows area hunters to harvest an antlerless deer with a gun from Christmas eve through January 1. Local Conservation Warden Chris Kratcha says the additional hunt and bonus tags that are given out in the area help manage the deer herd. He shares a reminder for all hunters heading out into the woods before the end of the year.

Door and Kewaunee counties are included in the 17 farmland zone units in the state that are participating in the holiday hunt this year. The overall deer kill in Door County from the traditional nine-day hunt last month showed the buck harvest was up about 12 percent, with the antlerless deer down five percent.  Kewaunee County’s buck harvest was down four percent, and the number of antlerless deer taken was down nearly 20 percent this year.

(story originally said Thursday, December 24, we regret this error.}