Connecticut Deer:  An estimate from the state of 100,000 in early 2025.  A 2024 estimate of 110,000 whitetail deer.  A state estimate of about 107,000 in 2022, down from about 114,000 in 2021 and 124,000 in 2020.  A rough estimate from the state put the deer population at about 100,000 in early 2016 and mid-2017, but an analysis by a private group puts the number at 50,000 in 2016.  Another state expert notes that the population has plunged.  Mild winters and abundant acorn crops in 2016-17 and 2015-16 have benefited the deer herd with the population increasing into 2017.  A peak populaton of about 152,000 the early 2000s.


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