FIELD INTELLIGENCE
The whitetail research desk.
Source-linked intelligence built on two decades of harvest, herd, and access data — organized where topic, state, and county intersect. Working papers, open datasets, and a running regulatory watch.
WORKING PAPERS
Research, not blog posts
Data-journalism from public records — each paper states its method, shows its figures, and cites its sources. Trophy shown as the proprietary FDR index only.
Read the papers →FIELD GUIDES
The field-craft, written down
How-to guides built to the desk's standard — reading terrain, screening scent risk, checking parcel data, timing the corn, asking for permission. Method stated, evidence cited, no fake precision.
Read the guides →OPEN DATASETS
The numbers, downloadable
The public-record series behind the papers — county harvest, deer–vehicle collision density, public-land access — free to use with attribution.
Browse the data →REGULATORY WATCH
Seasons, deadlines, CWD
Season dates, permit deadlines, and chronic-wasting-disease zones across the Midwest — each page dated and checked against the state agency.
Open reg watch →