Welcome to HVQDMA.com
HVQDMA.com is a website for the Hudson Valley branch of the Quality Deer Management Association. The intention of the HVQDMA.com website, is to provide a local resource for those of you that live and hunt here in the Hudson Valley and care about preserving and enhancing one of our favorite natural resources, the North American White Tail Deer.
What is QDMA?
Quality Deer Management (QDM) is a philosophy and practice that brings together landowners, hunters, and deer managers in the common goal of producing biologically and socially balanced deer herds within existing environmental, social, and legal constraints. This approach typically involves the protection of young bucks (yearlings and some 2.5 year-olds) combined with an adequate harvest of female deer to maintain a healthy population in balance with existing habitat conditions and landowner desires. This level of deer management involves the production of quality deer (bucks, does, and fawns), quality habitat, quality hunting experiences, and, most importantly, quality hunters. » read more
QDMA Links
- QDMA National Site: The National QDMA website. The QDMA is rapidly becoming the most respected and influential white-tailed deer organization in the United States.
- White Tail Institute: The Whitetail Institute specifies in deer food plots, and also wildlife food plots and whitetail food plots
- Deer Search Inc.: Deer Search Inc. is an organization of volunteers who seek to reduce the number of deer wounded and left in the woods to die during hunting season.
- New York State DEC: On the DEC website you can find information about the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation as an organization: its structure, management and policies, history, contacts, jobs and volunteer opportunities.
- White Tail Map Guide: The Whitetail Map Guide is an interactive map utility that features white-tailed deer populations throughout the United States. This map is a great reference tool for all deer hunters, deer managers, or anyone with an interest in white-tailed deer.
- Northeast Big Buck Club : Northeast Big Buck Club is a regional source for whitetail measuring and record-keeping in the Northeast
- Venison Donation Coalition: The Venison Donation Coalition website will help you learn more about the VDC and its mission, donate a deer or money to the cause, find a participating processing center
- NYQDMA State Website: The New York Quality Deer Management Association (NYQDMA) has 14 Branches in New York State and oversees/support to all 14 branches in NYS
- Live Search Maps (Virtual Earth): Live Search Maps is a mapping tool that help you to find property layouts and ariel photos.
- The Federated Sportsman's Clubs of Ulster County: Serves as a collective voice for the sportsman's clubs and individual sportsman of Ulster County.
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Upcoming Events
FREE Deer & Habitat Field DayDate:Sunday, September 14, 2008
Time:9:00 AM
Hudson Valley Branch meeting:Date:Monday, September 22, 2008
Time:7:00 PM
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QDMA News
QDMA National Convention Breaks Attendance Records, Two AwardsDate:Monday, September 08, 2008
Food Plots and Habitat Management in Focus at the QDMA National ConventionDate:Thursday, June 19, 2008
Experts Share New Research into Mature Buck Movements at the QDMA National ConventionDate:Friday, May 30, 2008
PRESS RELEASEDate:Sunday, May 18, 2008
Button Buck BiologyDate:Thursday, June 22, 2006
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