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Coyote Hunting - From 10 Yards to over 1,000 Yards
Are Coyotes Negatively Impacting Our Deer Herds?
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<blockquote data-quote="jamesmc2" data-source="post: 588479" data-attributes="member: 28212"><p>Actually the studies were well designed. They put radio tracking devices on mule deer in the Wyoming. Year after year the mule deer spent the summer in the mountains and came down to the sagebrush plains for the winter. When this area was heavily developed with gas wells and 1,000s of miles of new roads the deer moved to other winter areas that were less suitable and winter mortality increased. The overall population of the herd has dropped a lot. I sure this is not the only factor involved in the population decline but it is definitely playing a role. </p><p></p><p>Obviously some deer due get used to humans. In your experience it looks like it has benefited the deer, but that is not always the case. My mother-in-law lives in a large housing development that was built in the foothills of mule deer winter range. The deer now spend the winter amongst the houses. At first they were novel but now they are viewed as pests. In the winter the city now exterminates many of the "problem" deer that eat people shrubs. Others get hit by cars. </p><p></p><p>Nice work on the Coyotes by the way, as I posted earlier in the thread I have witnessed Coyotes preying on mule deer fawns.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jamesmc2, post: 588479, member: 28212"] Actually the studies were well designed. They put radio tracking devices on mule deer in the Wyoming. Year after year the mule deer spent the summer in the mountains and came down to the sagebrush plains for the winter. When this area was heavily developed with gas wells and 1,000s of miles of new roads the deer moved to other winter areas that were less suitable and winter mortality increased. The overall population of the herd has dropped a lot. I sure this is not the only factor involved in the population decline but it is definitely playing a role. Obviously some deer due get used to humans. In your experience it looks like it has benefited the deer, but that is not always the case. My mother-in-law lives in a large housing development that was built in the foothills of mule deer winter range. The deer now spend the winter amongst the houses. At first they were novel but now they are viewed as pests. In the winter the city now exterminates many of the "problem" deer that eat people shrubs. Others get hit by cars. Nice work on the Coyotes by the way, as I posted earlier in the thread I have witnessed Coyotes preying on mule deer fawns. [/QUOTE]
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