For Ohio landowners dealing with high deer populations, harvesting additional deer each fall can be beneficial. The question for some hunters, however, is what to do with the venison when the freezer is already full.
An expanding deer donation program from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife is designed to help answer that question this fall, giving hunters an outlet for additional harvested deer while providing meat to Ohio food banks.
“Most successful hunters in Ohio will only tag one deer when the statewide bag limit is six, and a lot of times that’s associated with they just don’t have any more room for deer, or any other use for additional deer,” said Jonathan Sorg, Wildlife Federal Aid Coordinator with the Ohio Division of Wildlife. “So we’re helping to provide additional opportunities there.”…