An optimistic spring survey of western North Dakota’s mule deer inhabitants following a light winter has given technique to a discouraging fall survey after a summer time of drought.
State Sport and Fish Division biologists counted 2,671 mule deer throughout the spring survey in April, indicating a inhabitants 21% above the long-term common. They counted 2,163 deer throughout the fall survey in October, although snow and wind restricted them to twenty of the 24 examine areas tracked yearly.
The ratio of 60 fawns per 100 does this fall was considerably decrease than final 12 months’s 82 per 100 and the long-term common of 88 per 100.
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