Wyoming Antelope Draft Numbers - Yikes

[MuleyMB]

@ccc23454 I also wish they would have reduced season on front side instead on back of dates 21sep-7oct instead, would have made a bigger difference i think.

This was my thoughts as well, I was talking to another guy and he told me that was the plan until outfitters through a fit, not sure if this is truth but I wouldn’t doubt it !!

 

[220yotekiller]

I know whitetail are not the problem, and you better think about the fact that as mule deer keep declining, if not for whitetail, you may not be hunting deer at all. Whitetails are also a good way for many hunters in Wyoming to make an easier decision to NOT kill a mule deer, while, instead killing a whitetail.

That's a tough reality that I had to come to grips with in places I've hunted in Montana. I wish the mule deer populations were better, but there are lots of things working against them.

No way do I feel whitetails should be treated as an invasive, certainly hunted, but not wiped out.

what, a voice of reason, what madness is this...

 

[NEWHunter]

And it keeps getting worse. These antelope need a break. Again, glad they are reacting accordingly

Game and Fish makes additional cuts to antelope licenses | Wyoming Game & Fish Department

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has made additional reductions to antelope license quotas for several hunt areas located in Carbon, Lincoln, Sublette and Teton counties. Recent collar data and field observations by wildlife managers indicate further reductions are warranted.

wgfd.wyo.gov

 

[Wildabeest]

And it keeps getting worse. These antelope need a break. Again, glad they are reacting accordingly

Game and Fish makes additional cuts to antelope licenses | Wyoming Game & Fish Department

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has made additional reductions to antelope license quotas for several hunt areas located in Carbon, Lincoln, Sublette and Teton counties. Recent collar data and field observations by wildlife managers indicate further reductions are warranted.

wgfd.wyo.gov

30-50% cuts in those regions beyond what they’d already cut. Drove thru that area yesterday and saw 3 small groups - 2 of them were about a dozen, and one group of 6. Usually see a hundred if not several hundred. Tough times.

 

[Washington Hunter]

30-50% cuts in those regions beyond what they’d already cut. Drove thru that area yesterday and saw 3 small groups - 2 of them were about a dozen, and one group of 6. Usually see a hundred if not several hundred. Tough times.

100% cut in one unit.

 

[Beignet]

75% mortality. Yikes. Good on WYGF.

From today’s email.

“The observations and updated collar data now indicate approximately 75% of the collared adult doe population in the Sublette Pronghorn Herd have died due to Mycoplasma bovis induced pneumonia and winter severity.”