Re: BCWF Mule Deer Webinar
Looks like the link has a login page I can't get passed.
Re: BCWF Mule Deer Webinar
Was there any talk on stopping the "doe" hunt on either species as the deer populations in BC is decimated
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Re: BCWF Mule Deer Webinar
Here's the link, looks like they uploaded it to youtube! Super interesting information on mortality rates and causes. Looks like food abundance is more important than predation rates for long term mule deer survival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O3nxEfs1yA
Re: BCWF Mule Deer Webinar
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Coloradobill
Here's the link, looks like they uploaded it to youtube! Super interesting information on mortality rates and causes. Looks like food abundance is more important than predation rates for long term mule deer survival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O3nxEfs1yA
Thank you for posting....
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hntcrazy
Was there any talk on stopping the "doe" hunt on either species as the deer populations in BC is decimated
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Are you saying that the BC whitetail deer population has been decimated?
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skibum
It was good. It was recorded, so hopefully it will be put out on youtube or somewhere.
Found the predator impact sections most interesting. Don't know if too many will like the predator impact findings from down in the states - similar mule deer mortality in predator control area vs. non-predator control area. But didn't get into why, like were predators were just keeping populations at winter carrying capacity in the non-predator control area, etc...?
The animation (video) overlaid on maps of migration data by date was pretty neat. They can get some pretty cool things with GPS now. Also, the average migration start times were a bit earlier than I expected.
Was it interesting, had it up on the tv and my kids sat through the whole presentation, so ya.
I found that interesting too. I'm thinking with robust ungulate populations, at or near carrying capacity, predation is not a major factor. For example, if you have a herd of 5000 deer and in their range you have four cougars, you won't notice the 200 deer the cougars take annually. If however, you only have a few hundred or a thousand in the same area, with the same four cats, then the 200 taken may drive the population down, especially if habitat is sub-optimal.
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hntcrazy
Was there any talk on stopping the "doe" hunt on either species as the deer populations in BC is decimated
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Short answer? Nope, there was not. The talk was an update on the Southern Interior Mule Deer study, meaning it was limited to mule deer in the 4 areas, what they do, and what kills them. It didn't address whitetail at all, as they aren't part of the study.
There are no GOS on muley does in any of those areas.
There are LEH opportunities for muley does, but I'm not sure if there was any data presented in the webinar indicating that any of the collared mule deer does were killed by hunters. I will try to get back and take a look to see if hunter harvest turns up in the mortality records.
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Rob Chipman
Short answer? Nope, there was not. The talk was an update on the Southern Interior Mule Deer study, meaning it was limited to mule deer in the 4 areas, what they do, and what kills them. It didn't address whitetail at all, as they aren't part of the study.
There are no GOS on muley does in any of those areas.
There are LEH opportunities for muley does, but I'm not sure if there was any data presented in the webinar indicating that any of the collared mule deer does were killed by hunters. I will try to get back and take a look to see if hunter harvest turns up in the mortality records.
At the 53:16 mark of the video it shows that 2 of 83 mortalities (or 2.4%) were due to harvesting.
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Rob Chipman
Recorded version is here for those who were unable to get in (I was shut out myself!)
https://ca.workplace.datto.com/webho...8&saauth=false
I'm going to look into future editions of these sorts of webinars *not* being limited to 100 people. Hopefully we have the technology.
Thanks buddy, i missed this post til now.
I was just taking to folks to find out what was happening.
Encountered Doe #7 (or was it #9??) and # 19 (or was it #17???).....lol.
Anyways, they were still around as of a couple of weeks ago.