Radio Collars on Deer

[bigmuleyboy]

I went to a small meeting where two DWR members from the state of Utah came to address the deer herds in Utah and the dedicated hunter program. I met with Alan Clark and asked him some specific questions that he did not answer directly. Good guy just that his hands are tied from bureacratic red tape. He claims that the division has been monitoring deer herds with radio collars? I just wanted to see if anyone has seen any radio collared deer in Utah? Anyone....Anyone.....

 

[Blanding_Boy]

LAST EDITED ON Apr-29-11 AT 06:27PM (MST)[p]yes they are and yes i have seen a couple here in cache valley. They looking at adult doe and yearling doe winter survival. Its just a live dead study checking them with airplanes every few months.

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[High_Wide_n_Heavy]

I've seen them in Central Utah... Watched them net the deer to put the collars on...

 

[JACO]

I saw a doe with one in the bottom of Nine Mile canyon back in February.

 

[ridgetops]

I've heard they collared 35 does and fawns on the Stanbury range. Several have already been killed by lions.

 

[justr_86]

Theres quite a few in the bookcliffs with collars on, Ive seen some on the southslope also.

 

[JuddCT]

They have been collaring deer for a while. I shot a 4x4 near LaSal about 6 years ago that had a collar on it. At the checking station they recognized the buck and it didn't seem they were too happy I had shot it. They asked me for my email address so they could send me a bunch of information on where he had been and such, but never got it. It was weird walking up to the buck and seeing a big collar on him.

 

[theox]

yeah where have you been? just usually collar does and fawns

 

[Daxter]

I know there was a graduate student that put some collars on bucks in SE Utah looking at movements during the rut and potential for the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease by rutting bucks. That was several years ago.

Right now almost all of the radio collars on deer in UT are on does and fawns looking at survival rates. They have collars on several units across the state. Hopefully it will give the DWR better data on mule deer population trends and help facilitate better management.

Dax

There is no such thing as a sure thing in trophy mule deer hunting.

 

[dillon]

I have seen about 7 in my life. Most right around Logan. I found one this spring dead (a fawn). I contacted the biologist and he went up and took it off the deer. They are far and few between but they are out there. They are not cheap, so the state only uses them when they are after important data.

Dillon

 

[Aaron84]

This is one of many I have seen in southern ut.

 

[Gator]

I do know the F&G will come to your house to pick them (Collars) up so they have good gps in them.

"I have found if you go the extra mile it's Never crowded".

 

[Elkhunter96]

I found one in the book cliffs, came off a dead cow elk that was just bleached bones. I dropped it off at the local DWR office when I stopped by to fill out some paperwork. The receptionist was not too sure what to do with it. I gave clear instructions on where I picked it up and my phone number, but I never heard back from the DWR.

I did see a few collars on elk last year, but did not see any on deer that I can remember.

 

[middlefork]

A little information on the Northern Region study.

http://wildlife.utah.gov/blog/2011/is-that-deer-wearing-a-collar/

 

[oldmossback]

We saw a doe with a radio collar on in northern colorado in 2010 funny thing is when we saw her she was running wide open across a canyon fallowed buy a big black and white dog chasing her.

 

[Longun]

Used to use them to dial into the "Wolfman Jack Show"....

 

[Silentstalker]

I saw several on does last year out on the book cliffs. They had an antennae on them. Pretty cool to see them using them for something??

 

[MuskegMan]

Here's what they use in S.E. Alaska

A guy I know was quite pround of himself for shooting it right thru the collar. They did return the collar to F&G, but they lost a winters worth of data that they were trying to collect after a really hard winter - > 50% winterkill and some areas approaching 75%

 

[hossblur]

Fools, they aren't collars they are bows. The herders get lonely on the mtn. all summer so they dress up their "favorites"