odds are, when we start getting winters to break our drought cycle, there will be bad winter kills. the western part of the state is starting to look like this may one of those years, though the eastern half is still very dry so far. after as many years of drought as we've had, the winters its going to take to get us back where we need to be are going to kill deer, plain and simple. on the + side, when a drought like this breaks, deer numbers tend to grow very quickly, or at least they have in the past. unfortunatly, theres no way around the fact that there is going to be a low beforethings start to improve. right now deer numbers are down in part due to drought, they will get worse before they get better.
sam