Urban Deer Management in Wisconsin  Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat The number of deer that a community wants is a community decision. There is no biologically correct number. The biological carrying capacity of many of our urban areas can be over 100 deer per square mile. What the community needs to determine is the social carrying capacity, —how many deer the citizens are willing to tolerate.  “Urban Deer Management in Wisconsin”  Wisconsin Urban and Community Forests, A Quarterly Newsletter of the Wisconsin department of Natural Resources Forestry Program.  Volume 8, No. 1, Spring, 2000, p. 1