So there has been a decline in our Utah deer, I would like to pose a question based on how I remember things no data and I will use the cache unit for my example and my grammar will be terrible, so all you perfect people keep it to yourself.
In the 80s we had some good deer numbers.
Post 83/84 winter the deer had declined but bounced back quickly not much different than what happened recently but it is taking longer for the rebound.
The 2 differences I see currently is
1- Elk and lots of them now, in the 80s they (elk) were few and far having low impact to winter forage
2- human encroachment on the benches now high impact on winter
So with increase of homes and hundreds more elk there is no feed for the deer.
We hunters need to decide if we want deer or elk because in many units I think it’s going to be a huge struggle to have any deer Quality if they try to manage both.
What are the forums thoughts?
In the 80s we had some good deer numbers.
Post 83/84 winter the deer had declined but bounced back quickly not much different than what happened recently but it is taking longer for the rebound.
The 2 differences I see currently is
1- Elk and lots of them now, in the 80s they (elk) were few and far having low impact to winter forage
2- human encroachment on the benches now high impact on winter
So with increase of homes and hundreds more elk there is no feed for the deer.
We hunters need to decide if we want deer or elk because in many units I think it’s going to be a huge struggle to have any deer Quality if they try to manage both.
What are the forums thoughts?