Quote Originally Posted by Ourea View Post
I've mentioned this on my Whitetail thread.......
if you can't answer 'who, what, why, where and when you will have a hard time consistently killing better animals.

This project is going to answer a lot of questions replacing educated guesses with quantified data.
Better decision making will result.

Where do these captured MD go after leaving their winter range?
How far do they travel?
What are the travel routes, do they avoid certain roadways etc?
What is causing the high mortality specific to each fatality.
When do most of the fatalities happen?
When exactly do they move the most?

Pretty exciting when you think about it.
Yes it is.
I think back in the day, we had an idea of their migration habits.
But, lets face it, there has been a ton of changes to our landscapes in many ways.
I think we will see some of those old ways of MD migration etc have changed.
What is happening to fawns is extremely important, and I think we well see that mortality is happening in a lot of
the year where we don't hunt.
And for many, "what" is causing the mortality, especially on HBC where many different opinions exist.

But then, I hope there is money to make the necessary changes!!???????????????????
And will it be applied, not just another study that gets tossed into the storage cabinet!