Nevada Mule Deer & Trade-Offs in Wildlife Management

[Jaden Bales]

https://www.rokslide.com/nevada-mule-deer-trade-offs-in-wildlife-management/

This conversation with Cody Schroeder from NDOW was a fun one, and really timely ahead of this week's application deadline. In this episode, we talk a whole lot about wildlife and mule deer management as a whole regarding habitat, surveying herds, and of course feral horses. Towards the back half, we dive in deep with the tradeoffs of mule deer management with low populations and high buck ratios.

Cody's a real good guy with awesome info, and a few dandy bucks he's killed the hard way. Hope you all enjoy!

 

[robby denning]

my fav kind of episode. Headed there now.

 

[RockAndSage]

Awesome, really glad to hear you're talking about the problem with feral horses. It's shocking how devastating they can be to a landscape, and its carrying capacity for deer. Looking forward to listening to the episode.

 

[Jaden Bales]

my fav kind of episode. Headed there now.

Enjoy! I'd love to hear your thoughts when he mentions with desert/low population herds and the mentality of "If I even see a deer, I want it to be a big one."

 

[Jaden Bales]

Awesome, really glad to hear you're talking about the problem with feral horses. It's shocking how devastating they can be to a landscape, and its carrying capacity for deer. Looking forward to listening to the episode.

For sure! The sad reality is that it's a federal issue, and we dive into how listeners can make an impact - which is arguably a more substantive impact than anything on the state level.

 

[Bull_n_heat]

Great Episode Jaden-

Love to see the approaches that other states use and how they balance the quality-opportunity equation. Seems like Nevada is pretty explicit in how they approach that (manage by the numbers!).

Also very interesting to hear about the spring classification data they collect - kind of seems to make sense to just estimate recruitment in the spring after fawns (now yearlings) have made it through the winter rather than count them in the fall and try to estimate a winter loss rate to get there.

Lastly, always good to get the hard numbers on how many NR tags NV issues... when I send off my spring "Donation" every year I guess it really is closer to reality than joke when I say it!

 

[David Gough]

I've always enjoyed my talks with Cody. Deer tags weren't reduced as much as I thought they would have been by the commission.