The whitetail deer is one of the most versatile animals in North America. The species is divided into eight separate subgroups. These subgroups include
Dakota, Dessert, Gulf Coast, Northern Woodlands, Northwestern, Seminal, South
Central Planes, and Southeastern Whitetails. Each one of these subgroups represent a different habitat, and group of adaptations for the whitetail deer.
These habitats range from hard wood draws all the way to rocky, mountainous terrain, and even down into the dessert country of Mexico. These animals are
distributed throughout all of North America, and require very little but food, water, and a bedding area for survival.
Seminole Whitetails:
The quest for the Seminole Whitetail in the swamps, prairies, and Flatwoods of Florida is truly unique in that it provides a wonderful view of how deer have so successfully evolved to flourish, regardless of climatic and other aspects of their range.
Dakota Whitetails:
The most important habitat for Dakota white-tails are hardwood draws and river bottoms. In farmland areas, marshes and sloughs are often the only cover much of the year and therefore are an important type.
South-Central Plains Whitetails:
Some of the most impressive bucks of all North America are here and big bodies and massive racks come easily on this habitat. More than 90 percent of the land is privately owned and is in agriculture and livestock grazing, resulting in habitat that supports high populations
Northwestern Whitetails:
Rocky Mountain Whitetail habitat of the Northwestern Whitetail includes cottonwood and willow dominated shrub communities in river bottoms, croplands, and dense coniferous forests.
Northern Woodland Whitetails:
Midwestern states are home to excellent soils and abundant croplands which produce high quality nutrition for deer and it’s no
coincidence that these areas produce the greatest numbers of record book bucks.the woodlots, cornfields, and hedgerows of the great American Mid-Western states; and thence north to the boreal forests of Maine, northern MI, WI, and MN. Produce abundant numbers of deer year in and year out.
South Eastern Whitetails:
The piedmont foothill areas offer pine and oak forests with abundant game that provide outstanding hunter opportunities from Maryland to the gentle rolling hills of middle Georgia. Coastal Plains commonly known as “low country” to the east are equally impressive with healthy herds in all states, well fed by the agricultural plantations and fertile soils that foot them.
Gulf Coast Whitetails:
The rich and fertile pine-saw palmetto Flatwoods, sand pine-scrub oak, live oak hammocks, salt marshes, sandy beaches and swamps along the gulf provide ample cover and food. The variety of habitat in these flatlands and dense swamps is extremely diverse on a micro level and deer flourish here and provide a tremendous deer population.
Desert Couse Whitetail:
This is the desert, plain and simple. Rugged dry and hot, where the cacti and brush thickets seem sparse to the average eye, but offer ample cover to hide
these elusive deer.
The quest for the Seminole Whitetail in the swamps, prairies, and Flatwoods of Florida is truly unique in that it provides a wonderful view of how deer have so successfully evolved to flourish, regardless of climatic and other aspects of their range.
Dakota Whitetails:
The most important habitat for Dakota white-tails are hardwood draws and river bottoms. In farmland areas, marshes and sloughs are often the only cover much of the year and therefore are an important type.
South-Central Plains Whitetails:
Some of the most impressive bucks of all North America are here and big bodies and massive racks come easily on this habitat. More than 90 percent of the land is privately owned and is in agriculture and livestock grazing, resulting in habitat that supports high populations
Northwestern Whitetails:
Rocky Mountain Whitetail habitat of the Northwestern Whitetail includes cottonwood and willow dominated shrub communities in river bottoms, croplands, and dense coniferous forests.
Northern Woodland Whitetails:
Midwestern states are home to excellent soils and abundant croplands which produce high quality nutrition for deer and it’s no
coincidence that these areas produce the greatest numbers of record book bucks.the woodlots, cornfields, and hedgerows of the great American Mid-Western states; and thence north to the boreal forests of Maine, northern MI, WI, and MN. Produce abundant numbers of deer year in and year out.
South Eastern Whitetails:
The piedmont foothill areas offer pine and oak forests with abundant game that provide outstanding hunter opportunities from Maryland to the gentle rolling hills of middle Georgia. Coastal Plains commonly known as “low country” to the east are equally impressive with healthy herds in all states, well fed by the agricultural plantations and fertile soils that foot them.
Gulf Coast Whitetails:
The rich and fertile pine-saw palmetto Flatwoods, sand pine-scrub oak, live oak hammocks, salt marshes, sandy beaches and swamps along the gulf provide ample cover and food. The variety of habitat in these flatlands and dense swamps is extremely diverse on a micro level and deer flourish here and provide a tremendous deer population.
Desert Couse Whitetail:
This is the desert, plain and simple. Rugged dry and hot, where the cacti and brush thickets seem sparse to the average eye, but offer ample cover to hide
these elusive deer.