Recreation and Parks Natural Resources Division White-tailed Deer Brochure Click here to return to the Brochure Index. If you already have the reader loaded on your PC, simply click on the file and the reader will open it for you. Activate the Adobe Acrobat Reader to open and read the application form.
Some encounters are pleasant.
The opportunity to observe or pursue deer is a valuable and memorable experience. These are experiences some people would like to continue to have and experience more frequently. However, for an increasing number of Howard County residents, encounters with white-tailed deer are less than pleasant. Many of these residents have voiced legitimate concern about increased agricultural crop, commercial nursery and residential landscape damage caused by deer. Increasing concern about deer-related problems indicates that deer populations in some areas of the county have exceeded the optimum.