Immediate Action for Mule Deer in Wyoming

Founder

Founder Since 1999
Messages
11,448
Over the past several weeks there has been a lot talk about Utah Mule Deer, now let's talk Wyoming. Does anyone care about the mule deer issues in Wyoming? What's happening up there to sustain mule deer herds?

I got an email today from the Theodore Roosevelt Sonservation Partnership that encouraged sportsmen to send a note to Ken Salazar at the U.S. Department of the Interior about the winter range in Wyoming.

Here's a link to the info. and there's also a form to email to Ken Salazar. You all need to take a minute and do it.....whether you hunt Wyoming or not.

Sportsmen Urge Immediate Action for Mule Deer in Wyoming

Over the past decade, sportsmen have seen mule deer and other wildlife resources on the Pinedale Anticline in Wyoming suffer dramatic declines as federal agencies failed to fully consider the impacts of oil and gas development on our public fish and wildlife resources...........CLICK THE LINK BELOW for more info and to send email

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5389/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4851


Brian Latturner
MonsterMuleys.com
 
Im going to give you my 2 cent's because most of you know what i think of UT!

founder don't deleate this one PLEASE.


I just spent 3 day's on and around the jackson hole refuge hunting buffalo with my dad and they have there head so far up there you know what it is comming out of SO,UTAH! first off the tree hugger's are running the show up there Imo. They let hundred's of guy's hunt cow elk on the refuge all around it and the hole "teton ntl park" even with all the snow up there like it's a dam bunny killing contest! They wonder why all the cow's are aborting there calf's and there heard is on the fast track to being gone. The f&g up there are as bad as wolf's on that elk heard! speaking of wolf's we was out on the refuge we was clear at the back we ONLY seen "8 wolf's" in one pack running elk down all day and not 1200 yard's away was another "6 pack" doing the same. I'm sure there was alot more! Back to the buff and elk why would they let hundred's and hundred's if not thousand's of guy's hunt elk on the ntl park but not the 300 buff tag's given out? That's were the tree hugger's come in they don't care about the elk but the buff and the wolf is there passion! The wolf has cleaned the moose out for hundred's of miles of that place we seen a few bull's but the moose bio said thru out the hole ntl park,refuge, and surrounding area he DID NOT see one moose calf all spring and summer! Is that bad? The people of wy need to start pressing issues if they already haven't but if they have i didn't see sign of it around the jackson/teton area! The same thing in SW,WY with the deer just in the last 5 year's it's wen't from i would say a 8-9 to 2-3 out of 10! They really need to start with the wolf then the number of tag's then get back to what WY was. I feel for you guy's up there.
 
Thanks for the heads up Brain.

Took the liberty to add the following to the Secretary:

At at time when all fossil fuel companies are generating healthy profits, for which they earn and have every right to, they still must re-invest some of those profits to protect that which they disrupt to generate their profits. I support oil and gas production, I support free enterprise, I support using natural resources and support capitalism as we practice it in our great country. I love this country and the economic opportunities it affords all Americans. However, industry must also be held accountable for the consequences of their profits and opportunity. Sportsmen and hunters must not be required to suffer the price for the industries profits.

Wildlife, if this case has been harmed and in this case it brought harm to the sportsmen and hunters that benefit from robust wildlife herds. Sportsmen have invested countless millions of dollars into the wildlife on these ranges and their investment must be restored by those that have profited from the lost of the resource. The fossil fuel industry is entitled to it's revenue however sportsmen and hunters have a right to have their investment held harmless as well. Please consider the following:
 
Are there any links that document how the oil and gas industry is effecting deer populations around Pinedale?

I'm not a buyer that there is a cause and effect between the increase in oil and gas exploration and the decline of deer populations. It has never adversely effected deer populations here in Utah and south west Wyoming where I've seen it over the last 20 or so years.

Not saying it's not true, just that I'd like to see the documentation for it.

Cheers,
Pete
 
c3 Anyone that lives here can tell you that the deer numbers have markedly declined on the mesa where the drilling is happening, its the same area where people used to film deer like the one they called popeye. Im guessing its all the drilling activity, and of course the highway mortality has really spiked. Unfortunately S.E. Wyoming has very limited wintering areas for deer, and that area was an important one.
 
Done! I was born in Afton and remember being 4 or 5 and watching the huge bucks my dad and brothers brought home. I would like to have a shot at those bucks again in the future when I take my dad back there to hunt!

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/nv_hunter/nevadaanimatedhelmetwd2.gif[/IMG]
 
If you think that Ken Salazar or anyone in the Obama adminisrtation is a friend of Hunters or the Hunting Community, placing your ball in their court will surely lead you to a huge disappointment! These people could care less for Hunters, Wildlife (outside of Wolves) or Energy developement company's. This only plays into the greater scheme of the things to come, Larger, more powerful Government! Sporstmen fixed the problem in the past and WE will do it again after the damage is done. Please, don't beg the Government for any further intervention. The gas produced is surely powering your computor and warming the room you occupy while you are typing your cry to the very Wolves that want to eat you. See below,

Yak

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Thomas Jefferson
 
Piper...I'm going to straighten your story out.....First Off Popeye WAS NOT filmed on the MESA winter range...HE WAS FILMED IN THE BIRCH CREEK AREA and that oilfield has been in production since the 1930's......granted the mesa has been developed in the last 10 years but since my wife and I have driven oilfield workers out there during the winter restriction months the deer in the area have declined BUT they are learning to adapt to other wintering areas...the deer wintering around my house have tripled since the MESA development....the main issue for our DEER is HEALTHY HABITAT...and the weather plays a big factor.....
 
I was born and raised in Evanston back in the glory days of the mule deer. Unless you saw it, you would not believe how great it was. In about the early 70's things started changing, and that was just about the time all the roads started opening up and the existing roads were widened and maintained all winter to reach the rigs and plants.

I know the decline of the mule deer herd is caused by many factors, but don't for a minute think that the oil industry did not have a huge effect on the decrease of mule deer, because they did!

Have a good one. BB
 
LAST EDITED ON Dec-05-10 AT 12:29PM (MST)[p]longgun- Ive watched some of those old eastman films and fremont peak is clearly visible in the background, you may be right about popeye though, the point is those deer no longer use the mesa as they once did, also the winter drilling restrictions are no longer in place like they once were. While the number of deer using the mesa has dropped dramaticly, The overall deer numbers in the area has also dropped since drilling, and fawn recruritment is down , its easy to say the deer can just go somewhere else and live, but they once used the mesa like they did for a reason. Of course they arent going to stop development, but putting pressure on these giant companys to be more responsable could help.
 
This is a little off subject, but where did Popeye come from? Birch creek along the southern border near Lone tree?
 

Click-a-Pic ... Details & Bigger Photos
Back
Top Bottom