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Thermal Drones Take the Hunt to New Heights: Deer Recovery Made Easy
- Drone Deer Recovery, a startup founded in 2021 in Winesburg, Ohio by Michael Yoder, is providing thermal imaging drones to help hunters find injured deer during hunting season.
- Drone Deer Recovery began using drones to find lost deer, by videoing drone footage and uploading it to the website, where video content ranged from 3 to 6 million views per month.
- Drone Deer Recovery has since expanded into a full-blown drone retail service including agricultural drones for crop spraying and the manufacturing of trailers to transport heavy-duty agricultural drones.
- It helps other entrepreneurs start their own deer recovery businesses, supplying them with the equipment the company uses.
- Drone Deer Recovery has a website where they list the deer recovery services of affiliated operators offering drone thermal imaging in their area, so hunters can find and hire them.
- State laws vary regarding the use of drones in hunting, but a majority of states allow drones to recover lost animals, although some states do expressly forbid their use.
- Qualified drone operators should have drones like the DJI Mavic 30T equipped with thermal imaging and standard visible-light cameras to spot heat signatures and capture an image of the animal’s location.
- Services are more effective the sooner they are called after the hunt, so the deer has less time to move further away into less accessible areas.
- By helping hunters find injured animals quickly and easily, Drone Deer Recovery is helping make hunting more ethical and responsible for both animals and hunters.
- Through advocacy and the provision of superior tools, it is clear that start-ups like Drone Deer Recovery can provide game-changing solutions to ethical problems faced by hunting traditions.
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