Commission Quota Setting Meeting

HiDesertHunter5 · May 9, 2018

For those who attended or watched the quota setting meeting what were your thoughts? Big thing that stood out to me was how bad the deer herds on the west side of the state are doing. Some areas losing half the population over the last couple of years. Pretty alarming. I hope the department can get a handle on it.

Downrange · May 9, 2018

Half the population wow!!! what has happened to them? drought, winter kill, predators or a combination of all 3? I love hunting the central part of the state, what are those units looking like, 161-164 171-174 151-155, 141-144 I have hunted all these units and loved them all.

HiDesertHunter5 · May 9, 2018

>Half the population wow!!! what has
>happened to them? drought, winter
>kill, predators or a combination
>of all 3? I love
>hunting the central part of
>the state, what are those
>units looking like, 161-164 171-174
>151-155, 141-144 I have hunted
>all these units and loved
>them all.

The rest of the state seemed to be holding steady or slightly increasing which was good to hear. The west side is really struggling though. The scary thing is that the staff specialist said they dont know what is happening but it is probably a combination of those as well as habitat loss. They are going to be doing some studies collaring deer in some of the units. The Sheldon is one of the units that is really struggling bad and losing their population substantially. If you saw it in its prime you know how devastating this really is. It was a world class unit years ago before the big burns.