Alabama Deer Population and Management News Archive
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Annual Deer Hunt
(rounded to nearest 1,000)
1950:      4,000
1968:    20,000
1984:  237,000
1985:  280,000
1986:  300,000
1987:  323,000
1988:  275,000
1989:  242,000
1990:  294,000
1991:  295,000
1992:  293,000
1993:  350,000
1994:  331,000
1995:  398,000
1996:  367,000
1997:  423,000
1998:  390,000
1999:  416,000
2000:  478,000
2001:  411,000
2002:  410,000
2003:  478,000
2004:  499,000
2005:  461,000
2006:  436,000
2007:  342,000
2008:  356,000
2009:  289,100
2010:  337,000
2011:  254,800
2012:  266,725
2013:  269,960
2014:  274,874
2015:  294,885
2016   235,000
2017:  212,444
2018:  203,040
2019:  218,358
2020:  195,128


Alabama estimates its total harvest from mailed hunter surveys.  The 2017 estimate follows this approach.
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