Quality Whitetails

Host: Neil Dougherty

Quality Whitetails features one of the most innovative formats ever in outdoor television. It is a unique blend of deer biology, deer management and deer hunting brought to you by the most respected whitetail conservation organization in North America, the nonprofit Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA). The show will feature many of the nation's leading whitetail experts including host Neil Dougherty, wildlife habitat consultant from New York, and co-hosts Dr. Karl Miller, professor of Wildlife Management at the University of Georgia, and Brian Murphy, Joe Hamilton and Kip Adams, all noted wildlife biologists with the QDMA.

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QUALITY DEER MANAGEMENT ASSOSCIATION

FOUNDED: 1988 | HEADQUARTERS: BOGART, GEORGIA

ABOUT

The QDMA promotes:

Safe and ethical hunting.
Adherence to wildlife and trespass laws.
Adequate harvests of adult does.
Restraint in harvesting young bucks.
Hunter involvement in education and management.
Cooperation with wildlife biologists and enforcement officers.
Stewardship and appreciation of all wildlife.
Education of hunters and non-hunters toward a better understanding of wildlife management.

The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) is a non-profit wildlife conservation organization dedicated to ensuring a high-quality and sustainable future for white-tailed deer and white-tailed deer hunting. Founded in 1988, the QDMA currently has more than 40,000 members in all 50 states and several foreign countries including over 800 deer management professionals - more than any other white-tailed deer organization. The QDMA has developed numerous partnerships with state wildlife agencies, timber companies, hunting groups, and product manufacturers. These partnerships have increased both the awareness of the QDMA and participation in the Association's management philosophy, Quality Deer Management (QDM). Without question, the QDMA is rapidly becoming the most respected and influential white-tailed deer organization in the United States.

HISTORY

The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) is a national nonprofit wildlife conservation organization and the leading advocate of the QDM philosophy. The QDMA's mission is to promote sustainable, high-quality white-tailed deer populations, wildlife habitats, and ethical hunting experiences through education, research, and management in partnership with hunters, landowners, natural resource professionals, and the public.

Originally founded in 1988 as a state-based organization in South Carolina, widespread interest from other states and several foreign countries resulted in the expansion to a national organization in 1990. In 1998, the QDMA moved its headquarters to northeast Georgia and today is among the fastest growing conservation organizations in the nation with more than 40,000 members in all 50 states and several foreign countries.

Among the QDMA's current members are nearly 800 of the nation's leading deer management professionals. Their collective knowledge enables the QDMA and its members to remain at the forefront of deer biology, research, and managemen The QDMA also has a network of more than 70 Branches (organized groups of volunteer members) in more than 20 states with many others forming. QDMA Branches actively promote the philosophy of QDM and the mission of the QDMA in their areas and hold educational and social events to unite like-minded sportsmen in this common goal.

www.qdma.org