I have No Doubt that if we started killing substantially more Elk and reducing the herd numbers you will see a increase in deer numbers!!!
I say this has been the number one downfall of many deer areas I honestly feel that it's much more beneficial then buck to doe ratios and even winter range..
#1 Reduce Elk numbers!
#2 Kill predators
But some of you think large numbers of elk can co-exist with muledeer!!
Sadly it's happened to so many of the best muledeer areas look into places like Deseret Land and livestock.
DLL and surrounding areas use to have some of the best deer hunting areas in northern utah and now the numbers are at some if not the lowest they have ever been and it's been going down as fast as the elk numbers have gone up!!
I say this has been the number one downfall of many deer areas I honestly feel that it's much more beneficial then buck to doe ratios and even winter range..
#1 Reduce Elk numbers!
#2 Kill predators
But some of you think large numbers of elk can co-exist with muledeer!!
Sadly it's happened to so many of the best muledeer areas look into places like Deseret Land and livestock.
DLL and surrounding areas use to have some of the best deer hunting areas in northern utah and now the numbers are at some if not the lowest they have ever been and it's been going down as fast as the elk numbers have gone up!!