I have a question for all you the WY guys. After doing some fun reading in a past issue of the WY MRS, i have a question regarding 130 and why the results have plummeted. Success rates were in the 90's and even 100% until 2009, and then in 2010, harvest results were cut in half. How did this unit experience such severe, fast harvest decline? Winter kill plus summer drought? Any population recovery seen in last couple years?
130 Mule Deer
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Againstthewind
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I think the winter kill and summer drought are part of it. There was an article awhile back about the longest Mule deer migration, and I think that area was right through the migration route, but I am not totally sure. They were migrating up into the Hoback river area, and the Wyoming range mule deer have had it rough for a few years. There was some disease, the wolves, cats, hunting pressure, road kill, etc. There was a topic on here about that to search also. Lots of good posts I learned lots. The game and fish web-site has a lot of articles on the Wyoming range deer herd. It doesn't seem like the same herd, but I guess the deer have really been migrating a long ways. Also there was a lot of oil and gas in that general area that has slowed down a little. They have taken steps to reduce roadkill north of that area. I have heard that populations are doing better there with the steps taken, but a full recovery is still a few good years off it sounds like. Not really an answer, but maybe some places to look.