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This is an hypothetical invitation... It suggests the potentials for an individual landowner or a cooperative of such owners for reducing crop losses and tree damage and for increasing annual income from the land.Perhaps some day it will become real as part of the forming Deer Group's work.

Your Invitation to The Deer Group

We have the answer. It has been carefully studied since 1994 and we want you to join in. It is a new approach and together we can achieve a solution and leadership. It is called Rural System's Deer Group

It's an organization and a service . . . all together. We invite you to join The Deer Group. It's the best membership you'll have. You join and we'll provide you:

1. A super newsletter every 2 months
2. Access to and guides for hunting on over a million acres of National forests in Virginia
3. Access to and guides for hunting on over 50,000 acres of State-owned wildlife areas
4. Access to over 50,000 acres of private managed deer lands, all under the sophisticated management of The Deer Group experts
5. Annual analysis of a deer herd in a county of greatest interest to you
6. A new procedure to evaluate vour deer antlers
7. A device for your hunting jacket that allows you to estimate accurately a deer's weight
8. Discounts on important deer and other wildlife publications
9. Discounts on fees for direct management of deer on private lands
10. Participation in an annual antler size and quality contest among members
11. Reduced fees of tours of deer range in the region and state
12. Reduced registration fees for an annual conference
13. Opportunities for excellent insurance for the field
14. Opportunities for contributing to powerful, influential planned practical research and substantial tax reductions
15. Exciting tours to photograph the deer of the world
16. Testimony before legislative groups for laws and regulations supportive of progressive deer management in the state
17. Promotion of strategies to reduce deer damage to crops, forests, gardens, etc.
18. Advice for or a source for superior use of deer meat, hides, antlers, body parts, and even the bones
19. Access to superior taxidermy
20. Planned productive use of deer hides
21. An anti-poacher strategy
22. Discounts on equipment
23. Deer Group Notes - practical, helpful advice and information
24. A consistent contribution to planned, practical studies of the deer svstem for the long run
25. Literature searches arranged on special topics and conducted b~ students of wildlife science at Vir~nia Tech
26. Computer software on deer and related topics
27. Opportunities for healthful volunteer work related to the resource
28. Participation in Grandeer, a new contest to see and photograph all of the deer, every species, of the world

You get all this for the price of one membership. As important as what you get is what you give.

We're giving an option to conventional public deer management in Western Virginia. We're giving an alternative, one that is notably superior, privatized and for-profit, to regional deer management. We're giving a new look to comprehensive, privatelv-oriented, computer-aided deer population management. We're grounded in literally millions of dollars spent on deer research. There's more to deer herd management than science, and we intend to pull it all together. .. science and all of the many other major aspects.

The Deer Group, besides being an organization, is a service

The Service

We have a land team. Land owners contact us (or we them) and under contract we develop a long-term plan for an ownership. . . then also manage the land for the owner -waterholes, trails, forage areas - all aspects, including superior long-term profit-based forestry, with a strong deer orientation. We assure more profit from deer and wood than from wood production alone. All of this includes computer maps, satellite images, computer models, and a new dynamic planning system, The Trevey. Deer become, as we believe that resource ought to be, part of a comprehensive land-use system that includes the ecology, economics, aesthetics, and energy budgets for the future. Too complex, the total system requires computer help to find the optimum. The owner profits and so does The Deer Group.

For small areas, we attempt to develop coordinated programs with other owners. The membership encourages the use of the strategy. The members may, based on the owner's wishes, be the primary users of the deer resource that is developed.

Profits from this action support the organization as well as innovative studies, most of which are conducted within the College of Forestry and Wildlife Resources at Virginia Tech. Related work opportunities are provided for Virginia Tech students.

Your Invitation

Join us. It costs $120 for the first vear; a fantastic deal for vou. Annual continuous membership is $100 (after the first year). The treasury of a hunt club or other groups gets 55 per membership if 100O/o of the members join. We're ready to go to work on your land. Call or send us a note. We'll describe the range of options and deliver superior land management... including a deer herd.

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