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Teton bighorn hunt puzzles backcountry skiers
… They wonder: Why increase tags while considering decreasing skiing to protect sheep? … the ’70s that indicated that rams in Wyoming’s Whiskey Mountain Herd actively avoid people, “except during the rut and spring green up,” and that rams “abandon optimal summer and …
admin - 02/19/2024 - 16:16
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In the Laramie Mountains, too many elk and no easy fixes
… this morning on this far meadow. They were down eating the green alfalfa starting to grow.” For a cattle rancher, … from Laramie to Casper, home to the Laramie Peak/Muddy Mountain Herd, which has averaged somewhere between double … licenses doled out, and by 2009 distributed 5,000-plus tags for the zone, elk area seven, which treads into five …
admin - 09/11/2023 - 22:50
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Winter crushes Wyoming Range mule deer fawns
… the Sublette pronghorn herd, which winters in the Upper Green River basin. A few hundred pronghorn from the Sublette … of drought, Fralick said, which has limited sagebrush and mountain mahogany’s growth, leaving less foliage for deer … department is considering cutting 1,100 doe-fawn antelope tags and slashing pronghorn buck tags by half for the …
admin - 09/11/2023 - 22:50
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Rare ‘inverted’ snowpack magnified winter’s heavy toll on wildlife
… Precipitation and water content in the mountain snowfields were just above average, but not … appears to be the cause. Overall precipitation in the Upper Green River Basin — which encompasses much of the Wyoming … of animals have been canceled and Type 1 “any antelope” tags typically used on bucks have been vastly reduced. Mule …
admin - 09/11/2023 - 22:50
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Big buck country sees slowest hunt in 30 years
… up where Greys River Road exits the Wyoming and Salt River mountain ranges. Fralick knows the spot well: This fall … for Wyoming Range mule deer and pronghorn in the adjoining Green River basin. Roughly three in four adult pronghorn … lions. Hunters, too, are trying to help, by giving up their tags, though that’s also unlikely to have any effect on …
admin - 01/03/2024 - 18:38