On the weekend of 18/19th February, hundreds of knowledgeable people across Exmoor set out before dawn to take part in the annual deer count. Next year will see the 30th anniversary of this valuable exercise which was launched back in 1994 by the Exmoor and District Deer Management Society, a group set up by landowners and the hunts to coordinate deer management across the whole of the National Park and to ensure a viable, healthy herd of Red deer.