"I'm sorry for the delay, but I couldn't find anything by googling nor were there any updates available at the Southern Utah DWR office. I finally had the DWR office email a message to Dave Smedley and he called me 1 week ago and said he would look through his emails to see if he could find later updates. He did say that he wrote a thesis for his degree (I don't know which one), and I asked if I could have a copy, but he said that is copywritten material which is not yet available to the general public, especially social media. I suspect that it is still being studied by the DWR, BYU, and other entities for the info it could provide relating to future deer management. In any case I told him that I wouldn't publish it on this forum and that if he felt or found out that he couldn't even give me a copy then I could just wait on that one like the rest of you.
Apparently he hasn't been able to find copies of updates, so I'll contact him again and some of the other people on the update list and see where that gets me. In any case, there won't be any updates for the last year or so. We'll just have to see the overall results through the DWR classifications and population figures which should be out in about a month. Stay tuned!
FWIW, Dave is now a DWR biologist living in the Fillmore area, so that project has proven to be a major part of his life!"
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