They suffered along the river and surrounding area…disease of some sort said one game officer. Blue tongue? Anyway glassed for 6 days and found 80-120 does and 3 mature bucks…these bucks weren’t even on public…saw two guys with 3x3 bucks 2-3 year old deer
It has definitely gone downhill as far as quantity and quality the last 5 years. I think disease may be part of it, but I think the local populations growing combined with a bad winter or disease is what has hurt the area. Not just one factor.
Age class is wrecked from unit 39 east to be clear I had multiple friends with 52 draw tags last year and no one saw anything that great. That is a lower elevation winter range unit with ussually big resident deer.