Category: Deer Processing

Monitoring Forest Songbirds

This document is a practical and easy guide for monitoring forest songbirds during the breeding season. It explains key habitat types such as riparian areas, uplands, young and mature forests along with providing instructions for conducting surveys using point counts...
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Bovine Tuberculosis in Wild White-tailed Deer

FNR-551-W: Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a bacterial disease of mammals resulting from the infection of Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis). It is a zoonotic disease that can infect humans, domestic stock, and wild animals. Outbreaks of bTB have occurred sporadically around...
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Handling Harvested Game: Episode 1, Field Dressing

FNR-555-WV: Bob Cordes, a wildlife biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, shows safe techniques and proper handling for wholesome source of meat for yourself and your family. The taste and enjoyment of your wild venison will...
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Handling Harvested Game: Episode 2, Skinning

FNR-Deer skinning-WV: Bob Cordes, a wildlife biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and Brandon Fields, an applied meat science manager with PIC, shows the full process of skinning a deer. Keywords: deer management, hunting, video, equipment,...
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Handling Harvested Game: Episode 3, Deboning

FNR-Deer Deboning-WV: Bob Cordes, a wildlife biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and Brandon Fields, an applied meat science manager with PIC, provides details for deboning to aid with your next steps of processing the meat....
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White-Tailed Deer Post Harvest Collection

FNR-Deer Data-WV: This resource provides details on collecting biological data from harvested white-tailed deer. We will cover the important pieces of information to collect and how to collect that information. Biological data from harvested deer can provide valuable insights into...
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Handling Harvested Game: Episode 4, Cutting, Grinding & Packaging

FNR-Deer cutting-WV: In this Episode 4 video series Bob Cordes, a wildlife biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and Brandon Fields, an applied meat science manager with PIC, shows safe techniques and proper handling for cutting,...
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