Rough Winter for Mule Deer ID/Wy/Ut

[Baddog]

30 inches in a couple days last week. Can’t see the top of the fence posts anymore.

Sounds like a good time for the locals to get after the wolves with snowmobiles!

 

[Plainsman79]

For the areas I’ve been around the last few days. This map seems fairly accurate for snow depths.

Current Snow Depth

www.fs.usda.gov

 

[manitou1]

Calling for another 8"-13" here the next two days with -35 wind chills.
Currently white-out conditions.
Highways closed.
Schools closed.
That darned wind really changes the dynamics with the drifting and then hardening of the snow.

 

[robby denning]

Calling for another 8"-13" here the next two days with -35 wind chills.
Currently white-out conditions.
Highways closed.
Schools closed.
That darned wind really changes the dynamics with the drifting and then hardening of the snow.

it's getting critical in some areas, this is gonna hurt.

 

[CorbLand]

This isn’t going to help.

 

[mtnrunner260]

Just as we were starting to see some spots bare off on the hillsides.

 

[BroccoliRob]

Got 10-12 inches of fresh snow in the Salt Lake valley overnight, and it's still coming down hard. More snow forecasted for next week too.

 

[sneaky]

Missed the worst of the snow here, but -10 tonight and about that tomorrow night, more snow forecast for next week. I'm over the winter at this point

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[mnhoundman]

Dam, praying for an early spring!!

 

[WeiserBucks]

Here's the other issue nobody wants to talk about. Big game is waaaaaaay easier to poach in the winter, especially a hard winter. This buck was poached on a friend's property recently and left to waste. Happens in the area every winter and we never hear about anybody getting busted for it.

Add trophy poaching to the hard winters and it's easy to see the direction that some areas are headed.

 

[Customweld]

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Here's the other issue nobody wants to talk about. Big game is waaaaaaay easier to poach in the winter, especially a hard winter. This buck was poached on a friend's property recently and left to waste. Happens in the area every winter and we never hear about anybody getting busted for it.

Add trophy poaching to the hard winters and it's easy to see the direction that some areas are headed.

Damn, that's tough to see. Rotten sunsa bitches.

 

[robby denning]

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Here's the other issue nobody wants to talk about. Big game is waaaaaaay easier to poach in the winter, especially a hard winter. This buck was poached on a friend's property recently and left to waste. Happens in the area every winter and we never hear about anybody getting busted for it.

Add trophy poaching to the hard winters and it's easy to see the direction that some areas are headed.

Makes me sick!!!!!

 

[Steve O]

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Here's the other issue nobody wants to talk about. Big game is waaaaaaay easier to poach in the winter, especially a hard winter. This buck was poached on a friend's property recently and left to waste. Happens in the area every winter and we never hear about anybody getting busted for it.

Add trophy poaching to the hard winters and it's easy to see the direction that some areas are headed.

That’s my dream deer right there. So sickening. Sure do hope karma gets that SOB.

 

[Firestone]

Add trophy poaching to the hard winters and it's easy to see the direction that some areas are headed.

That pisses me off!

 

[svivian]

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Here's the other issue nobody wants to talk about. Big game is waaaaaaay easier to poach in the winter, especially a hard winter. This buck was poached on a friend's property recently and left to waste. Happens in the area every winter and we never hear about anybody getting busted for it.

Add trophy poaching to the hard winters and it's easy to see the direction that some areas are headed.

Looks like they dragged it a ways and gave up. I hope the bastard gets caught.

 

[WeiserBucks]

Looks like they dragged it a ways and gave up.

You're correct. They drug it closer to the road and left it, possibly got spooked by someone driving by but who knows. Sucks it could have been someone's BOAL this year after spreading those killer genes last fall.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

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Here's the other issue nobody wants to talk about. Big game is waaaaaaay easier to poach in the winter, especially a hard winter. This buck was poached on a friend's property recently and left to waste. Happens in the area every winter and we never hear about anybody getting busted for it.

Add trophy poaching to the hard winters and it's easy to see the direction that some areas are headed.

Poaching in the foothills of Northern California on private property, in late fall/early winter is astounding. These ghost like mule deer and blacktail/mule deer hybrids make their way down out of the heavy snow and get into does making themselves known and present. Season ends well before they make their way down most years. I know of at least 25 BOALs that have been killed out of season in the last decade. Not one of them makes the local news.

 

[CorbLand]

Missed the worst of the snow here, but -10 tonight and about that tomorrow night, more snow forecast for next week. I'm over the winter at this point

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After shoveling a foot of snow off my driveway, I walked in to my wife and said **** it, I am applying for that job in Arizona.

 

[LongWayAround]

I don't know much about the rest of the state but I drove through Colorado's North Park about two weeks ago.

The snow was about as deep as I have seen up there. Most of the sage was buried, a few draws where it is especially tall were still partially exposed. The willows were largely snowed in as well.

Fortunately, many of the deer and antelope migrate out of that area but I'm not sure if they are able to walk to better conditions this year. The previously posted map shows less snow up towards Saratoga.

The elk were out in the open, seemingly doing alright.

 

[LongWayAround]

For the areas I’ve been around the last few days. This map seems fairly accurate for snow depths.

Current Snow Depth

www.fs.usda.gov

Thanks for posting that link.

I have used the nohrsc nsa website for years but your link is a much more user friendly map.