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Game and Fish using helicopter to survey big game herds
GREEN RIVER-Deer classifications are underway in the Green River Region and Wyoming Game and Fish Department wildlife biologists and game wardens will be using a helicopter to count southwest Wyoming deer herds. Classification counts are how the Game and Fish estimates the number of fawns and bucks in the deer herds and it can easily be done in a short amount of time from a helicopter.
"If you are hunting on a late elk license please be aware that local biologists and game wardens will be in the air classifying deer tentatively the week of December 7," said Mountain View Wildlife Biologist Jeff Short. "Because we have some late elk hunts going on we want hunter to be aware of the helicopter surveys. We will also work hard to avoid flying the survey on the opening weekend for the late elk hunt in areas 102 and 104, which is December 5 and 6, or the last two days of the season. There are also late hunts going on in hunt areas 106 and 107. There is also a possibility that the helicopter survey may fly over the Knight Ridge Hunter Management Area and a couple of hunting walk-in access areas."
By using the deer fawn ratios, managers can monitor how fast a population is growing or perhaps decreasing. The number of bucks tells managers how the herds are holding up to our current hunting pressure and harvest. Wildlife managers look at the number of yearling bucks in the herd as a measure of how fawns from last year fared over the past winter.
"Our flight schedule is always weather-dependent," Short said. "Also, weather plays a huge role in how big game animals survive the winter. We could see an above average winter mortality of mule deer if this winter turns out to be very cold and with heavy snowfall. We will know more about how many animals were lost in the spring, when we conduct the deer mortality surveys the first weekend in May."
For more information please call the Green River Region Game and Fish Office at 307-875-3223.
~WGFD~
Game and Fish using helicopter to survey big game herds
GREEN RIVER-Deer classifications are underway in the Green River Region and Wyoming Game and Fish Department wildlife biologists and game wardens will be using a helicopter to count southwest Wyoming deer herds. Classification counts are how the Game and Fish estimates the number of fawns and bucks in the deer herds and it can easily be done in a short amount of time from a helicopter.
"If you are hunting on a late elk license please be aware that local biologists and game wardens will be in the air classifying deer tentatively the week of December 7," said Mountain View Wildlife Biologist Jeff Short. "Because we have some late elk hunts going on we want hunter to be aware of the helicopter surveys. We will also work hard to avoid flying the survey on the opening weekend for the late elk hunt in areas 102 and 104, which is December 5 and 6, or the last two days of the season. There are also late hunts going on in hunt areas 106 and 107. There is also a possibility that the helicopter survey may fly over the Knight Ridge Hunter Management Area and a couple of hunting walk-in access areas."
By using the deer fawn ratios, managers can monitor how fast a population is growing or perhaps decreasing. The number of bucks tells managers how the herds are holding up to our current hunting pressure and harvest. Wildlife managers look at the number of yearling bucks in the herd as a measure of how fawns from last year fared over the past winter.
"Our flight schedule is always weather-dependent," Short said. "Also, weather plays a huge role in how big game animals survive the winter. We could see an above average winter mortality of mule deer if this winter turns out to be very cold and with heavy snowfall. We will know more about how many animals were lost in the spring, when we conduct the deer mortality surveys the first weekend in May."
For more information please call the Green River Region Game and Fish Office at 307-875-3223.
~WGFD~