WDFW Mule Deer Survey

[huntnphool]

 What do you guys think of the WDFW Mule Deer Survey, compared to the Whitetail Survey?

[Bango skank]

Did not receive.  Whats the gist of it?

[huntnnw]

neither have I

[Ridgerunner]

Perhaps that was the point?  I didnt get one either. 

[Karl Blanchard]

Perhaps that was the point?  I didnt get one either.

this!    probably because they know what the answer is but don't have the spine to do anything.

[huntnphool]

Perhaps that was the point?  I didnt get one either.

this!    probably because they know what the answer is but don't have the spine to do anything.

 Correct!

 Does anybody else see this as troubling?

[TriggerMike]

I didn't get the E-Mail. WTF??

[BearCreekCookBook]

Maybe if we accuse WDFW of being racist against deer of color they’ll take us seriously.

[Jonathan_S]

Must have sent it to the same pool of people who are considered for the incentive deer tags.

[hunter399]

I didn't get the E-Mail. WTF??

I didn't get one ,what the crap is going on.

[BearCreekCookBook]

I didn't get the E-Mail. WTF??

I didn't get one ,what the crap is going on.

There is no email. There is no survey. That is the problem... herds are in terrible condition and WDFW is silent.

[huntnnw]

While everyone got the whitetail survey , I got a email about 4 days later

[Rainier10]

I haven't received mine yet but when I do I am voting for a more liberal season and to abolish all antler point restrictions. 

[huntnphool]

I haven't received mine yet but when I do I am voting for a more liberal season and to abolish all antler point restrictions. 

 

[Bango skank]

Have people been pushing for changes in mule deer management?  This whitetail thing has come about from a lot of people hounding wdfw to reimplement the apr.  Same reason our antlerless harvest was removed.  If people have good ideas about mule deer reg reform, id be interested to hear them.  I dont really know mule deer, but its easy to see the numbers up here declining up in the mountains.  Areas that used to have a halfway decent number of muleys now have very few, some areas theyre flat out gone.  Not sure what could be done at this point as far as changes to mule deer regs (not predator changes, though i know predation needs addressed more), that might help recovery.