Antler Points

From Lasting Forests, This is your invitation ...

to join one of the most exciting new ventures in natural resource management in a century. Cutbacks during a period of high pressure! Fewer staff when there is a cry for more service! Great knowledge gained after millions of dollars have been spent on studies! Fewer hunters when wildlife management has become more successful! An anti-hunting sentiment while deer reach pest-scale populations in some areas! Coyotes invading, therefore threatening future fawn crops! How can all of this happen? How can such a set of problems be solved?

The Deer Group does not yet exist. It is hypothetical and under design. Perhaps someday it may exist with venture capital and a few risk-taking, entrepreneurs.

We have the answer.

It has been carefully studied and we want you to join in. It is a new organization, service, and approach, and together we can achieve a solution and leadership. It is called The Deer Group. It's an organization and a service . . . all together. It's the best membership you'll have. You join and we'll provide you:

1. A super newsletter The Deer Group Notes - practical, helpful advice and information every 2 months
2. A subscription to Whitetailed Times
3. Access to Antler Points and related web sites
4. Access to and guides for hunting on over a million acres
5. Access to and guides for hunting on over 50,000 acres
6. Access to over 14,000 acres of private managed deer lands, all under the sophisticated management of the experts of The Deer Group.
7. Annual analysis of a deer herd in an area of great interest to you
8. A new procedure to evaluate your deer antlers
9. A device for your hunting jacket that allows you to estimate accurately a deer's weight
10. Discounts on important deer and other wildlife publications
11. Discounts on fees for direct management of deer on private lands
12. Participation in an annual antler size and quality contest among members
13. Reduced fees for tours of deer range
14. Reduced registration fees for an annual conference
15. Opportunities for excellent insurance for the field
16. Opportunities for contributing to powerful, influential, planned, practical research ... and substantial tax reductions
17. Exciting tours to photograph the deer of the world
18. Testimony before legislative groups for laws and regulations supportive of progressive deer management
19. Promotion of strategies to reduce deer damage to crops, forests, gardens, etc.
20. Superior use of deer meat, hides, antlers, body parts ... even the bones
21. Superior taxidermy
22. Planned, productive use of deer hides
23. An anti-poacher strategy
24. Discounts on equipment (see Quixtar.com)
25. A consistent contribution to planned, practical studies of the deer system for the long run
26. Literature searches arranged on special topics and conducted by The Wildland Knowledge Base
27. Computer software on deer and related topics
28. Opportunities for healthful volunteer work related to the resource
29. 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 the opportunity that you gain to give.

We're giving an option to conventional public deer management. 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, privately-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, Guidance. . 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 budget for the future. Too complex, the total system requires computer help to find the optimum. The owner profits and so does The Deer Group of Lasting Forests.

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. Related work opportunities are provided for university students of wildlife resources.

Join us. It costs $120 for the first year; a fantastic deal for you. Annual continuous membership is $100 (after the first year). The treasury of a hunt club or other groups gets $5 per membership if 100% 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.

This Web site is maintained by R. H. Giles, Jr.
Last revision January 17, 2000.