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What Is QDMA?

The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) is a non-profit wildlife conservation organization dedicated to ensuring a high-quality and sustainable future for white-tailed deer and white-tailed deer hunting. Founded in 1988, the QDMA currently has nearly 50,000 members in all 50 states and several foreign countries, including over 800 deer management professionals—more than any other white-tailed deer organization.

QDMA Mission

“To ensure the future of white-tailed deer, wildlife habitat and our hunting heritage.”

QDMA promotes 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. Membership in the QDMA is open to anyone with an interest in the wise management of white-tailed deer.

QDMA Objectives:

•To serve as a collective and responsible voice for white-tailed deer hunters and managers

•To improve the quality of deer herds and hunting experiences through sound deer management

•To promote hunter education and participation through the conducting of meetings, seminars, and demonstrations, and through the production of educational materials such as books, videos, and the QDMA’s bi-monthly journal, Quality Whitetails

•To promote and financially support deer research and management projects relating to white-tailed deer management and/or recreational hunting

•To enhance the public image of deer hunters and deer hunting by providing a code of ethics for members to follow

What QDMA Promotes:

•Safe and ethical hunting

•Adherence to wildlife and trespass laws

•Adequate harvests of adult does; restraint in harvesting young bucks

•Hunter involvement in education and management

•Cooperation with wildlife biologists and enforcement officers

•Education of hunters and non-hunters toward a better understanding of wildlife management

•Stewardship and appreciation of all wildlife

For more information visit www.QDMA.com

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