What are we going to do? How has your community been effected by the deer population? Until a few years ago, the daily limit on deer here was 2 and there was no season limit. The deer population was growing, but the rate of increase was small. We had a few auto deer collisions. Then came a season limit of 5. Today there only a few families in the area that haven't had a collision. There are five families on my mile and a half road, and every one of them have had at least one collision in the last 18 months. One man drives 35 miles to and from work, and he has had three collisions. All collisions have occurred on the open highway and during the early evening hours. It is rare to drive down any road during these hours and not see a dozen or more deer grazing along the roadside.
In my research, I found that the Florida FWC changed the limits to allow more trophy bucks to develop. When are they going to wake up to the overpopulation of deer?