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Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, presented by First

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And now, your host, Mark Kenyon.

Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. This week on the show, I'm joined by Kip Adams, the chief

conservation officer for the National Deer Association, and we are discussing the state of

White Tails in America in 2026.

We're to cover many of the most pressing and concerning issues facing deer,

as well as deer harvest and population trends, and much more.

All right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by First Light.

Today on the show, as I just mentioned, we are chatting with Kip Adams from the National Deer Association about all things, white tails, and the state of our favorite big game animal all across the country.

We're going to be walking through a bunch of different things that were covered in the

2026 Deer Report that the National Deer Association just put out.

This is a report that covers many different topics, many different issues, many different

trends and data related to deer and deer hunting across the country.

So, as I mentioned at the top, we're going to talk through some of the most important issues

facing deer. Some of that's policy issues. Some of those are updates on disease and hunter

participation numbers. We talk through a lot of things related to the deer harvest trends

across America, how the age structure is changing, how

bucks versus antlerless deer harvest is changing.

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