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| 929.1 | Unit 521 | CSC32::J_HENSON | It's just the same, only different | Wed Mar 13 1991 16:46 | 19 |
| I talked to the Colorado Department of Wildlife game biologist who
works the area in which I hunted last year (unit 521). According to
him, last year was very good, especially for deer. There was enough
snow in the high country during the last season to drive a lot of
deer down, and subsequently, a lot of bucks were taken. The
elk harvest was also very good. He didn't have any actual figures.
I asked about the prospects for 1991, and in his words, 1991 should
be phenomenol for elk. The elk are wintering very well this year
and the population is high. The deer, however, is another story.
He only expects it to be average (whatever that is). The heavy
third-season kill has reduced the buck to doe ratio quite a bit, and
the deer haven't handled the winter as well as the elk have. Mostly
the fawns were effected by the winter. The DOW hasn't ran it's
computer model yet for 1991, and he will know more after this is
done. You can bet that I will be talking to him again in another
month or two.
Jerry
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| 929.2 | | WAHOO::LEVESQUE | 9� Weeks ==> life? | Thu Mar 14 1991 08:59 | 4 |
| When they refer to the deer kill, is that mule deer, whitetail deer or a
combination of both?
The Doctah
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| 929.3 | Probably whitetails and mulies | CSC32::J_HENSON | It's just the same, only different | Thu Mar 14 1991 10:10 | 15 |
| >> <<< Note 929.2 by WAHOO::LEVESQUE "9� Weeks ==> life?" >>>
>> When they refer to the deer kill, is that mule deer, whitetail deer or a
>>combination of both?
Doctah,
The article didn't make any distinctions regarding species. However,
since it was reported as statewide results, I ASSUME (you know, make
an ASS out of U and ME) that it included whitetail. I don't know
how many whitetails were taken, but I do know that there is a small
(relatively speaking) whitetail population in Colorado and some are
taken every year.
Jerry
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| 929.4 | There's more | CSC32::J_HENSON | It's just the same, only different | Thu Mar 14 1991 10:44 | 17 |
| The Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph ran their version of the
article in .0 today. Basically, the article had the same information,
with the following additions.
According to this article, the DOW expects the Colorado elk herd will
have more than 200,000 animals, the most in any state or province.
Also, deer will number more than 600,000.
As an aside, and applying a little arithmetic, I've come up with
the following.
Taking approximately 50k animals out of a herd of 200k results in
an annual kill of approximately 25% of the state's elk herd. For
deer, 90k animals out of a herd size of 600k results in taking
about 15% of the state's deer herd.
Jerry
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| 929.5 | Colorado mostly muleys | EREMO::BULLARD | | Thu Mar 14 1991 11:32 | 17 |
| Its true that the majority of deer in the state are muleys.
Whitetails are only east of the mountains (plains) along the river
bottoms (Arkansas and South Plate). I have observed whitetails
along fountain creek, 15 miles east of Colorado Springs. I have
seen many along the South Plate and the Arkansas rivers far away
from the mountains, but even there there are significant amounts
of muleys. I doubt that there is much competition for food there
though, because the whitetails would live in the brush of river
bottoms and the muleys would range in the arid sagebrush country
with in reasonable walk of water. All dear hunting in the plains
require special drawings, where most areas in the mountains are
unlimited over the counter buck/bull licenses.
There might also be some whitetails on the western slopes large
valleys along river bottoms(?).
chuck
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