Brad Miller

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  Published on: 6/4/2009    Last Visited: 7/15/2009  

  Brad Miller, Arkansas Game & Fish Commission deer program coordinator, said the harvest was up over 13,800 deer from the 2007-08 season.

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  Published on: 1/18/2009    Last Visited: 1/18/2009  

  I asked Brad Miller, the AGFC's deer biologist, if a 4-point rule would accomplish anything that the 3-point rule does not. He said that because deer have bigger antlers and body weights both in the Delta and on Crowley's Ridge, some yearling bucks are still vulnerable there.
  
  "Looking at 2007-2008 harvest data from the Delta, about 11 percent of antlered bucks harvested that had five or more total points were yearlings," Miller said. "If we change the antler point restriction to require at least four points on one side of a buck's rack, we're going to further reduce the harvest of yearling bucks."
  
  Of course, a percentage of yearling bucks still will carry at least four points on one antler, so a 4-point rule would not protect them. Nor does it seem excessively high for 11 percent of the kill to be yearlings. Under a 4-point rule, Miller said that percentage might drop to about 4-5 percent. The decision to implement such a rule, he added, is up to the public.
  
  "People need to decide whether this is a proposal we should consider," Miller said.
  
  My impression from hunters in eastern Arkansas is that most landowners and hunt clubs already follow a self-imposed 4- point rule. Miller said that assessment is accurate, especially in southeast Arkansas. I asked him if it was necessary to mandate through regulation what most people are already doing voluntarily.
  
  "Again, that's one of those things the commissioners have to vote on, and the public has to give input on," Miller said. "We had our public meetings a week ago. Based on our public meetings in Jonesboro and Brinkley, written comments were primarily against going to a 4-point rule. Generally, they were just against it."
  
  Miller said 34 people attended the meeting in Jonesboro, and 24 attended the Brinkley meeting. Only four people attended the Pine Bluff meeting. You can also comment online via the AGFC's Web site. Miller said the agency has gotten about 150 online comments, and he said more of those favor a 4-point rule.

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  Published on: 5/28/2009    Last Visited: 5/29/2009  

  Brad Miller, AGFC deer program coordinator, told the commission the harvest was up over 13,800 deer from the 2007-08 season.

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  Published on: 5/23/2009    Last Visited: 5/23/2009  

  Brad Miller, deer program coordinator for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, suggested that persons wanting to plant edges create their own mixes based on what is suitable for land in their areas.
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  Miller said, "Although a variety of factors such as deer density, habitat diversity and existing agriculture practices can affect the importance of supplemental plantings, it has been well-demonstrated that well-managed food plots can produce tremendous amounts of nutritious forage for deer and many other wildlife species."

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  Published on: 5/21/2009    Last Visited: 5/22/2009  

  Brad Miller, deer program coordinator for the AGFC, said the harvest was up over 13,800 from 2007-08.

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  Published on: 11/6/2008    Last Visited: 11/6/2008  

  According to Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Deer Program Coordinator Brad Miller, many areas of the state are seeing a substantial amount of deer food in the woods this year.
  
  "Across most of the state, acorn production appears good this year," Miller said. "Additionally, some areas have high production of grapes and persimmons."
  
  The use of food plots by deer will likely increase in the latter portion of the season due to the current abundance of natural foods, Miller said.
  
  "Hunters may need to find an area with good acorn production and evidence of deer use such as droppings or fresh tracks later in the season," Miller explained.

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  Published on: 10/24/2008    Last Visited: 10/24/2008  

  "Small outbreaks like this are fairly routine and are nothing to be alarmed about," said Brad Miller, AGFC deer program coordinator.

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  Published on: 7/15/2008    Last Visited: 7/18/2008  

  The vast fields of crops that dominate the landscape in NEA keep deer populations down and prevent them from congregating in large numbers, which might pose a danger to the public, said Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Deer Program Coordinator Brad Miller.
  
  "There are some pockets of high deer density in the Delta Region and through parts of Northeast Arkansas," Miller said.
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  An April freeze in 2007 affected the fall acorn crop, and it caused herds to move more than usual to find food, Miller said.
  
  This year the acorn crop should be fine, and the AGFC doesn't expect higher kill numbers for deer, as happened last year, Miller said.
  
  Although deer pose a threat to motorists, human fatalities are rare, Miller said.While many of the estimated 5,000 motorist-deer collisions in Arkansas each year result in some property damage, only 0.7 of these incidents involve injury to the driver or passengers, according to a report released by the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
  
  No matter what the statistics indicate, Miller said motorists should always be wary."If you live in a rural area, there are critters all around you," Miller said.

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  Published on: 5/31/2008    Last Visited: 6/1/2008  

  Brad Miller, AGFC deer program coordinator, told the Commission the harvest was up almost 4,200 deer from the 2006-07 season.
  
  The northwest part of the state saw the greatest harvest increase from the previous year, Miller explained.
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  Miller said that the hard mast production, such as acorns, was reduced due to the Easter freeze."Limited mast production often increases hunting success," he said.
  
  Deer harvest numbers stayed essentially the same in the southwestern corner of the state.Harvest numbers were down in the northeast and southeast portions of the state.Zone 16A had the largest drop in harvest with a 39 percent decrease.
  
  Miller also briefed the Commission on deer depredation issues to farmers in Chicot County.Deer near the Mississippi River were displaced by the April floods and were destroying crops in surrounding agricultural lands."We received some complaints, primarily in fields near the Mississippi River Levee in Chicot County.We worked with the media, hunting clubs and landowners to address the problem," he said.

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  Published on: 5/23/2008    Last Visited: 5/24/2008  

  Heard a report from Brad Miller, the new AGFC deer program coordinator, that preliminary statistics show hunters took 169,953 deer in the 22007-2008 hunting season, an increase of about 3 percent over the previous year.

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