Nontypical, great post, but take a look at these official numbers from the 1990's. In 1990 the Wyoming range mule deer herd was estimated at 52,300. In 1991 the carter lease herd unit, area 134 west of Kemmerer, was added to the Wyoming range herd, for an estimate of 57,200. As many people know the early 90's was slaughter time. With as many as 9 permits per hunter, this "greatest disgrace in the history of wildlife managment" is still joked about by members of the game and fish, they call it the "deer wars". The sickening part to the story is the thousands of hunters who killed truckloads of deer. The hunters who participated in this are as much to blame as the game and fish. So in 1991 we had 57,200 and in 1992 the estimate was 34,000 deer. WOW 23,200 deer come up missing in one year. Can anyone say overharvest? The excuse of the winter of 92-93 killing all the deer is nothing but a lie backed up by the departments own paperwork. So in 1992 we had 34,000, in 1993 25,803, a difference of 8,197. The deer were wiped out long before this bad winter.Mismanagement, misinformation, incompetence and $$$$, are to blame. Sorry for the boring numbers but the truth needs to be told. All concerned sportsman should contact Terry Cleveland, director of the Wyoming game and fish at 5400 Bishop boulevard, Cheyenne WY 82006. The more complaints they hear the better.Thanks for reading.