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NDA Awarded 4th Public Land Initiative Grant from the Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s Outdoor Fund

May 19, 2025 NDA Staff

The National Deer Association (NDA) is pleased to announce a fourth consecutive grant from the Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s Outdoor Fund to continue NDA’s Public Lands Initiative. With the new $200,000 grant, the Outdoor…

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NDA Team Hires Former USDA Forest Supervisor Carl Petrick

May 15, 2025 NDA Staff

The NDA is proud to announce the hiring of Carl Petrick through a partnership with the natural resource management companies Southern Forestry Consultants, Wiregrass Ecological Associates, and Shea Wildlife & Environmental Services Inc. Petrick will…

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NDA’s 2021 Field to Fork Report: 43 Hunts, 17 States

Jan 28, 2022 NDA Staff

We recently wrapped up the sixth season of our Field to Fork adult hunter recruitment program, and despite the lingering pandemic, we were able to hold 43 events in 17 states, ranging in size from…

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The Biggest Buck Harvest in 21 Years

Jan 26, 2022 NDA Staff

Deer hunters in the United States harvested an estimated 6.3 million white-tailed deer in the 2020-21 hunting season, the most since 2011, according to the National Deer Association’s latest Deer Report released this week. Harvests…

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Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act Passed by House of Representatives

Dec 9, 2021 NDA Staff

The National Deer Association (NDA) applauds yesterday’s passage of the Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act in the House of Representatives. The NDA is proud to endorse the legislation, joining a strong group of…

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NDA’s onX Hunt CWD Layer Now Provides Testing Sites, More Resources

Nov 1, 2021 NDA Staff

Newly expanded information in the onX Hunt App CWD map layer will make it even easier for deer and elk hunters to help fight chronic wasting disease (CWD) by providing CWD distribution, management zones, testing…

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NDA Teams Up With Daniel Defense and NSSF on a Field to Fork Hunt

Dec 11, 2020 NDA Staff

The National Deer Association’s Field to Fork program has discovered an untapped reserve of adults who are interested in deer hunting but need an invitation and a helping hand to get started. One of the…

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QDMA Releases New Video Highlighting Field to Fork Program

Aug 20, 2019 NDA Staff

ATHENS, GA (August 20, 2019) – The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA), in partnership with the Georgia R3 Initiative, has released a new video highlighting their highly acclaimed Field to Fork adult-mentored hunting program with the…

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QDMA Branches Embrace Field to Fork

Jan 15, 2019 NDA Staff

New York The Greater Rochester Southern Tier Branch partnered with the Cornell Cooperative Extension to run a Field to Fork out of the Rochester Public Market that very much followed the Athens, Georgia pilot program….

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Cultivating Field to Fork

Oct 31, 2018 Charles Evans

QDMA Hunting Heritage Programs Manager Hank Forester and I just wrapped up our third year of Field to Fork in Athens, Ga. and it was one of the best yet. Over the past few years…

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