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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 2964734" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>In the west and southwest parts of the state of Wyoming we lost up to 92 percent of the fawn crop, and they really haven't published numbers on the yearlings and adults that died last winter yet. It will take a few years for them to comeback. I am finally seeing some rabbits coming back in my area. Not a lot of mouse or vole activity at this time usually you can see the little tracks in the dust and or snow in the sagebrush but not this year so far. I haven't seen a lot of partridge or grouse sign either. I have seen some swift fox and a little bobcat sign not much red fox or coyote sign where I have been. I am seeing a few mule deer does and bucks but very few fawns and yearlings. Several antelope adults and a few of last years as well as this year's young, not a lot of larger bucks at this time. We did get a good crop of grass this year, as we had the best moisture I have seen since the early 70's, I don't know how the mid 70's were here as I wasn't here for them, but I do know that the late 70's and early 80's were hard winters here. At this time, it looks like the prey base is low and so is the predator base perhaps that is why the coyotes only had an average of five pups this spring a hard winter causing them too not be as healthy as they normally would have been, less food to feed growing pups and the parents so fewer pups being born to less healthy adult females and less healthy pups being born as well so fewer survived.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 2964734, member: 91783"] In the west and southwest parts of the state of Wyoming we lost up to 92 percent of the fawn crop, and they really haven't published numbers on the yearlings and adults that died last winter yet. It will take a few years for them to comeback. I am finally seeing some rabbits coming back in my area. Not a lot of mouse or vole activity at this time usually you can see the little tracks in the dust and or snow in the sagebrush but not this year so far. I haven't seen a lot of partridge or grouse sign either. I have seen some swift fox and a little bobcat sign not much red fox or coyote sign where I have been. I am seeing a few mule deer does and bucks but very few fawns and yearlings. Several antelope adults and a few of last years as well as this year's young, not a lot of larger bucks at this time. We did get a good crop of grass this year, as we had the best moisture I have seen since the early 70's, I don't know how the mid 70's were here as I wasn't here for them, but I do know that the late 70's and early 80's were hard winters here. At this time, it looks like the prey base is low and so is the predator base perhaps that is why the coyotes only had an average of five pups this spring a hard winter causing them too not be as healthy as they normally would have been, less food to feed growing pups and the parents so fewer pups being born to less healthy adult females and less healthy pups being born as well so fewer survived. [/QUOTE]
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