Second Check Station for Kinzua Quality Deer Cooperative to be Hosted at Willow Creek Sportsmen’s Club on SR 346
Bradford, Pa.: The Willow Creek Sportsmen’s Club and the Kinzua Quality Deer Cooperative (KQDC) are working together for wildlife this year to operate a second check station at the clubhouse grounds on SR 346. The KQDC has operated deer check stations at numerous locations on the 74,000-acre study area for the last 25 years. This year, the Willow Creek Deer check station will be at the Sportsman Club grounds at 3307 West Washington Street, SR 346, Bradford, Pa, 16701.
The SR 59 deer check station at the John Perkins parking lot will also be operational this year.
Both check stations will be operated from 10am to 6pm on Saturday, November 28th, and Sunday, November 29th, and Saturday, December 5th.
Hunters who harvest a deer on the KQDC are encouraged to take their deer, buck or doe, to the check station. The information gathered on deer helps manage the deer populations and forest practices on both private and public lands in the program.
All hunters who have a deer checked will receive a fluorescent orange winter tassle hat. Hunters will also receive a chance to win $500 if they have their antlerless deer checked. Hunters with antlered deer checked will have a chance for a $250 prize.
Willow Creek Sportsman’s Club also helped the KQDC with this spring’s deer population and forest regeneration surveys. The KQDC does 26 square miles of surveys every other year on the area. The number of employees at the Northern Research Lab in Irvine, Pa, and the Allegheny National Forest field force have been reduced in the last two years. Willow Creek sportsmen stepped up to do five of the square miles surveys this spring. The KQDC offered a training day in March of 2026 with about a dozen club members, and by the end of May those members had completed five square mile surveys. That included walking 25 miles of survey lines through the woods and gathering data at 1300 plot points on the area. The accomplishments of the Willow Creek Sportsmen’s Club members made it possible to get the 2026 spring deer surveys completed in a timely fashion.
The KQDC thanked the club members for their help and provided the club with a $500 donation at their recent October meeting towards their new club’s programs. The club does a lot of work for young people who hunt, fish, trap, and enjoy the forests, waters, and wildlife in our area.
More information can be found on the KQDC Facebook Page.