While they are not "reserch papers", these job completion reports may contain some informaton you are looking for.
https://wgfd.wyo.gov/hunting-trapping/job-completion-reports
ClearCreek
Are you sure you are not talking about the 10x42 SLC's as being discontinued? That model was discontinued a few years ago as a Swarovski model, they are now made by Kahles.
ClearCreek
One of the things found after the first year of The Upper Powder River Mule Deer study, which would have been about 7 to 8 years ago, was the poor body condition of the critters.
The body condition of the Upper Powder River mule deer going into the first winter of the study was poorer (lower...
I know a couple state agencies discussed this 10 years ago. Montana may have dabbled in this concept, but I can't remember what their outcome was.
ClearCreek
Why would the local biologists "send the counts to Helena to get put in an equation for the population estimate"? If they have the count numbers it should only take a few minutes to enter that data into a population estimate calculator that is more than likely on their office computer and the...
My wife had a Vortex Viper 15-45 X 65 for a while that she used to "watch" wildlife in Yellowstone. When we were looking at the same thing, a wolf den for instance, she got frustrated because she was not able to see the things that I could with my spotting scope; a Swarovski 25-50WA X 80.
The...
Without a doubt there are regional differences in horn growth among pronghorn.
I have aged hundreds of pronghorn via incisor replacement that were killed in northcentral (east of the Bighorns) Wyoming. Many (most) 4 year old and older pronghorn bucks never had horns greater than 14 inches...
This reminds me of something an old friend used to say about things like this, "No is only good until the next time and yes is good forever".
ClearCreek
The closure of the sage-grouse season in sage-grouse Hunt Area 4 has been in the works for at least a year so this tuff winter has nothing to do with the closure.
ClearCreek
There are times when the "journalists" at a news paper will change things in a news release sent by a game and fish agency. I am not saying this is what happened here, just saying it does happen.
Sometimes this can cause some real issues.
ClearCreek