Mule Deer Migration

[mulecreek]

Great stuff and worth the read and watch. Interesting work by one of those college educated SOB's some of us are always pissin and moanin about.

http://wyofile.com/gregory_nickerson/americas-longest-mule-deer-migration-discovered-in-wyoming/

 

[Snoopdogg]

Very cool--pretty amazing too.

 

[buckhorn]

I remember back probably 25 years ago while hunting in the Hoback country I had a conversation with a local hunter out on the mountain. He told me that some of those deer migrate all the way to the Red Desert and back every year. Seems he knew what he was talking about.
Very interesting.

 

[Founder]

Very cool. You know, I hate to bring up Kirt Darner's name, but it seems that I either read or heard him mention 20+ years ago that mule deer from that Wyoming range migrated 100 to 150 miles south.

Very interesting stuff in that article. Especially the vocalization the biologist spoke of. I have been very close and watched thousands of deer in my life and while their migrating is when I've heard that vast majority of mule deer being vocal. On a migration route on the Paunsaugunt they were going crazy with their little noises.

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[nontypical]

Good stuff. Great video. All the years prior to 2011, those deer were treated as unit 131 resident deer. Now there are few deer in 131,except the Green River corridor and the irrigated lands around Farson/Eden. Even after G&F had this info, they still allowed does to be shot for the last 2 days of season in 2012 and 2013( by youth). This year, they are proposing further reductions in hunting there, and dropping the any deer for youth. Hopefully, it's not too late. 131 produced some whopper bucks not that long ago.

 

[YELUM]

My buddy shot a collared buck about 10 years ago in unit G. He received information that the 4 year old buck was collared as a yearling 90 miles from where he shot it.

Yelum

Theres logic, and theres women. They don't go together.

 

[lostoutwest]

this wasnt surprising to me. ive seen several bucks over the years in the summer only to later find them on the winter range. the only thing that threw me for a loop is how the deer on bear river divide migrated.
I have my therioes that are about 40/60 fact based on how the bull elk finally start to winter throughout this area. It seems once a bull reaches 2 or 3 years old he usually starts migrating with a bachlor herd that ends up dictating where he will spend the winter the rest of his years. usually a spike follows his mothers herd out to winter, by the next year he is considered a threat in the rut and becomes displaced ( sometimes several miles ) from said herd. usually ending up with a bachlor herd of bulls by november thus migrating out to winter to wherever the bulls of that bachlor herd winters, more times than not. Which in my small mind is awesome for spreading gentics and avoiding interbreading. Then you hear about the cow that got tagged in yellowstone that was killed in the greys river... and it throws most of what you think for a loop