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Why were white-tailed deer almost driven to extinction? What strategies were used to recover their population?

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Market hunting, over-harvest, subsistence hunting, and lack of effective law enforcement were the main causes that drove the whitetail deer populations in the Southeast to become nearly extirpated. Venison was in high-demand, and with little regulations of deer harvest, the species was facing havoc.

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The deer were almost driven to extinction because people thought there were so many and the government just said go kill them and for the second question the hunters having to buy tags to hunt deer would be a strategy that was used to help recover the population.
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