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Re: Winterkill
« Reply #45 on: January 09, 2022, 08:50:45 AM »
Deer are getting around ok out my window
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Re: Winterkill
« Reply #46 on: January 09, 2022, 10:29:48 AM »
Snow level is supposed to go to ~7,000 feet by Wednesday. So something is going to change. Others will know better than me how much to expect lower level snow to melt and as far as mid elevations...? Doesn't sound real good.
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Re: Winterkill
« Reply #47 on: January 09, 2022, 11:24:00 AM »
Good golly miss Molly. There’s some snow on that roof.
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Re: Winterkill
« Reply #48 on: January 09, 2022, 11:28:02 AM »
The south facing slopes will start burning off fairly quick if we get a week of sun and warmer temperatures.

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Re: Winterkill
« Reply #49 on: January 09, 2022, 11:56:51 AM »
Deer sleeping on open south slopes this am in 127

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Re: Winterkill
« Reply #50 on: January 09, 2022, 12:47:39 PM »
Good golly miss Molly. There’s some snow on that roof.

2 feet in 24 hours will do that  :chuckle:
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Re: Winterkill
« Reply #51 on: January 09, 2022, 12:53:58 PM »
That’s some snow. Let’s hope it melts off, at least where the critters are wintering. 
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Re: Winterkill
« Reply #52 on: January 09, 2022, 12:55:57 PM »
Lake Wenatchee report is about 6 feet since Jan 1.
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Re: Winterkill
« Reply #53 on: January 09, 2022, 01:41:43 PM »
Lake Wenatchee report is about 6 feet since Jan 1.

Talked to friends who live between Leavenworth and lake wenatchee. They got over 40”  in those same 24 hours
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Re: Winterkill
« Reply #54 on: January 09, 2022, 05:25:37 PM »
Do you think that some deer got stuck in the back country

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Re: Winterkill
« Reply #55 on: January 09, 2022, 09:13:51 PM »
Do you think that some deer got stuck in the back country
I told a story a few years ago that would answer this question, it happens, my old packer friend and his wife ran smack dab into dozens of skeletons scattered in a box canyon at about 9,000 ft. All in different stages of decomposition, some still had hair, some still had their antlers, I seen the pictures. He and his wife figured they got trapped in a freak/early storm, most were under trees and in thickets, they were trying to stay out of the weather. He said that under some trees the bones were piled on top of each other like they were trying to stay warm or alive. This was in the early 70,s, close to Spanish Camp. Mother Nature can be a bit$h at times.

I told the whole story before. It made the hair on my neck stand at attention when it was told to me.
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Re: Winterkill
« Reply #56 on: January 10, 2022, 01:41:17 AM »
Do you think that some deer got stuck in the back country
I’m willing to be they were out of there long ago.
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Re: Winterkill
« Reply #57 on: January 10, 2022, 04:09:06 AM »
Maybe it’s a cost issue. I always wondered why they feed elk and not mule deer. I heard they switch to a more wood diet in winter might be all that’s available. I need to do more research because I have fed apples etc and don’t want to do more harm than good. Plus apples and other organics aren’t always available. I think whitetail are a different story.

We don’t have elk feeding sights in the NE corner but they used to feed the muleys and whitetail at Sherman creek game range and near Sullivan lake. At the Sherman creek game range there’s a couple hundred acres of fields where the game department would hire a guy to farm alfalfa just for feeding deer in the winter. To the best of my knowledge the reason they stopped doing it (roughly 10-15years ago?) is because it was turning into a lion feeding frenzy area. Also this was long before concerns of CWD in Washington.

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Re: Winterkill
« Reply #58 on: January 10, 2022, 05:52:37 AM »
Maybe it’s a cost issue. I always wondered why they feed elk and not mule deer. I heard they switch to a more wood diet in winter might be all that’s available. I need to do more research because I have fed apples etc and don’t want to do more harm than good. Plus apples and other organics aren’t always available. I think whitetail are a different story.

We don’t have elk feeding sights in the NE corner but they used to feed the muleys and whitetail at Sherman creek game range and near Sullivan lake. At the Sherman creek game range there’s a couple hundred acres of fields where the game department would hire a guy to farm alfalfa just for feeding deer in the winter. To the best of my knowledge the reason they stopped doing it (roughly 10-15years ago?) is because it was turning into a lion feeding frenzy area. Also this was long before concerns of CWD in Washington.
I thought it was "let nature take its course" with WDFW concerning feeding deer vs elk.
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Re: Winterkill
« Reply #59 on: January 10, 2022, 07:46:49 AM »
I think the Sullivan lake station was stopped because the cats were killing sheep.  So, the cats and a little later wolves moved to wipe out the few remaining woodland caribou

 


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