Re: Southern Interior Mule Deer Project Update
The thread is on the interior mule deer project, not regUlation.
The regulation debate has been drum to death for yrs on this site.
Near 100% pregnancy rate in the sample areas.
Deer numbers continue to decline.
The focus is on mortality and what those drivers are.
4 point seasons, or regulation for that matter, did not impact doe survival.
Again, the core issue of this project is to determine what is causing such high mortality rates on the DOE population.
Are fawns succumbing to excessive predation?
Are does succumbing to excessive predation?
If so.....where, when, how.
Is it habitat related where fawns are too weak to survive?
Rd mortality?
Out of season harvest?
When does are dying right now, this week, next week, next month, the question is how and where.
All the hunting regulation changes in the world won’t have a factor on this dynamic.
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