In the 2015 season, hunters in St. Lawrence County harvested only 78 percent of the number of whitetail taken in the 2014 big-game season, 3,827 compared with 4,908.

Whitetail deer bucks accounted for nearly 70 percent of the deer harvest in the county during the 2015 big-game season.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation reports that 2,657 bucks were harvested out of a total of 3,827 of all deer last season in the county.

That compares with 61 percent in 2014, 3,033 bucks out of 4,908 total deer.

In the two Wildlife Management Units that cover the part of St. Lawrence County outside the Adirondack Park, WMUs 6A and 6C, the DEC calculates that, on average, fewer than two bucks per square mile were taken. Buck take was up five to 15 percent from 2014, and antlerless deer take was down more than 15 percent in the two WMUs.

The town-by-town breakdown in the county for 2015 was:

Brasher, 114 deer; Canton, 287; Clare, 95; Clifton, 74; Colton, 128; DePeyster, 23; DeKalb, 104, Edwards, 131; Fine, 78; Fowler, 74; Gouverneur, 62; Hammond, 88; Hermon, 136; Hopkinton, 137; Lawrence, 92; Lisbon, 285; Louisville, 44; Macomb, 99; Madrid, 130; Massena, 34; Morristown, 159; Norfolk, 75; Ogdensburg, 8; Oswegatchie, 84; Parishville, 187; Piercefield, 51; Pierrepont 81; Pitcairn, 78; Potsdam, 325; Rossie, 39; Russell, 231; Stockholm, 153; Waddington, 141.

Statewide, the total deer take was down 15 percent from 2014, from 238,672 in 2014 to 202,973 last season. And the Deer Management Permits, special allocations of antlerless deer, resulted in 23.4 percent fewer deer taken, from 100,381 in 2014 to 100,381 in 2014. The number of deer taken by crossbow in 2015 was up significantly, by 34.9 percent, from 5,535 in 2014 to 7,469 in 2015 statewide.