Walksalot
12-04-2007, 07:21 AM
With the warmer temperatures we are experiencing and the cool temps forcasted for the end of the week this could bring about a very hard crust on the snow. If these conditions arise this would not bode well for the ungulates so maybe we should take this into consideration when out and about in the last days of the bow hunting season. To push them to run through the hard crust might cut their legs all to hell. Personally, if these conditions arise, I will leave them be. Just a thought guys.
Also, I wonder, depending on how hard and thick the crust gets, if some animals might have a tough time exiting the high country. With the bad winds we had in the Okanagan there were many trees blown over which supply lichen for the animals to eat. I wonder if this might hold them in the high country and bring about a sticky situation for them when the food source is gone and they attempt to exit the high country. Might this cause a high mortality rate for the ones at higher elevation.
One thing is for certain, the predators will have easy pickings.
Also, I wonder, depending on how hard and thick the crust gets, if some animals might have a tough time exiting the high country. With the bad winds we had in the Okanagan there were many trees blown over which supply lichen for the animals to eat. I wonder if this might hold them in the high country and bring about a sticky situation for them when the food source is gone and they attempt to exit the high country. Might this cause a high mortality rate for the ones at higher elevation.
One thing is for certain, the predators will have easy pickings.