2025 Southeast Deer Study Group
The 2025 Southeast Deer Study Group will be held at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake (100 Heron Blvd, US-50, Cambridge, Maryland), February 16-19, 2025. This year's theme is "Bridging the Latitudes: White-tailed Deer Disease Research & Management".
As one of the largest gatherings of white-tailed deer biologists in North America we aim to share the latest information on one of the most important wildlife species in North America. Hosted on a rotational basis by each southeastern state’s wildlife agency, these meetings provide an important forum for the sharing of research results, management strategies, and discussions that can facilitate the timely identification of, and solutions to, problems relative to the management and biology of white-tailed deer.Student Presentation Awards:
A cash award and certificate will be given to the first, second and third place student oral presentation and poster. To qualify as a student presenter, the senior author must either be a graduate or undergraduate student or be in his/her first year of employment post‐graduation. Posters and presentations should address the presenter’s graduate research, senior thesis, or similar project in which he/she was involved while a student. To be eligible for the award the presenter must be the primary person involved in data collection, analysis, and presentation preparation.
- 1st place - $300 – Plus Certificate
- 2nd place - $200 – Plus Certificate
- 3rd place - $100 – Plus Certificate
History of the Southeast Deer Study Group
The Southeast Deer Study Group has met annually since February 1979 for researchers and managers to share the latest information on the most important wildlife species in North America. These meetings provide an important forum for the sharing of research results, management strategies, and discussions that can facilitate the timely identification of, and solutions to, problems relative to the management of white-tailed deer.
The Southeast Deer study Group was formed as a subcommittee of the Forest Game Committee of the Southeastern Section of the Wildlife Society. The Deer Subcommittee was given full committee status in November 1985 at the Southeastern Section of The Wildlife Society’s annual business meeting. States participating regularly in the Southeast Deer Study Group include Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.