The 2022-23 searching season noticed a 12% improve in deer, the Pennsylvania Sport Fee mentioned.
The fee reported outcomes Thursday from deer season, which led to January.
Hunters harvested about 423,000 white-tailed deer, 164,000 of which have been bucks.
That is a 12% improve from the 2021-22 deer season, however extra according to current tendencies, the sport fee mentioned.
“The long-term buck harvest pattern signifies Pennsylvania’s deer inhabitants is in a fairly good place proper now,” mentioned David Stainbrook, supervisor of the sport commissino’s deer and elk part, within the report. “We see usually secure inhabitants tendencies in a lot of the state, close to purpose ranges, and we’re seeing extra older bucks out there for harvest.”