Summer Range

[Yalo]

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Does anybody know where the G3 herd spends its time in the summer. One area or many areas?

Also, where do the does have their young? Anybody seen recent fawns not too long after birth and what elevation (summer range or other). I have been at different elevations from 11000 to 5000 feet around birthing times and never seen the new fawns. Maybe nature protecting them but interesting to me where they hold up? There are lots of does together in May and do they split in many seperate drections to give birth? In June they seem scattered again. What is the earliest date one has seen new fawns?

Anyone seen lions in the area this year?

Just keeping some dialog going her on the G3 California post on items that may be of interest to us all. yalo

 

[BuckSnort]

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/hunting/deer/docs/maps/g3.pdf

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[nickman]

The deer in G3 follow the snow level back over the crest and into the Kern Platteau basin. They cannot share the available resources on the Eastern slope.

By the time the annual runoff is complete, there are very few deer left on this side of the Sierra. Probably 3% of what the winter range held.

There is very little habitat on the Eastern slope....flat ground with food, cover, etc.....hence the winter concentration, as opposed to some 70 x 200 miles of forests, meadows, and browse on the platteau and in the wilderness areas.

There is a small population of deer that remain in the assorted creek drainages of the Eastern side, but the overall habitat requirement is just not as good as what is available on the crest.

Very few deer can use the available habitat and secluded areas for fawning are minimal.

It also gets way hot on the Eastern slope, as opposed to the parklike setting areas of the platteau, wilderness and the various designated parks.

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