The Tribune did an article a few years back that said 10,000 deer are hit and killed by cars each year in Utah.

If there are 800K and hunters take about 85K and cars take another 10K that should leave plenty for the cougars, coyotes and wolves. Do we ban wolves or cars?

 

There are no wolves in Utah
We should ban both cars and wolves and only allow trucks! :smile:

 

I like where HighNDry is going maybe CPAJeff can help. Brighter minds than me can audit Utah’s deer herd better.

(Hypothetically) and feel free to do the math and estimations yourself. Here’s mine

300,000 deer total statewide
50,000 buck
250,000 doe
250,000 new fawns hit the ground in spring
500,000 deer in spring
-175,000 predators
-35,000 human harvest
-10,000 cars
-30,000 winterkill, disease, exhaustion,
=300,000 deer statewide give or take 20,000.

Just estimates but to me they are plausible.

 

I like where HighNDry is going maybe CPAJeff can help. Brighter minds than me can audit Utah's deer herd better.

(Hypothetically) and feel free to do the math and estimations yourself. Here's mine

300,000 deer total statewide
50,000 buck
250,000 doe
250,000 new fawns hit the ground in spring
500,000 deer in spring
-175,000 predators
-35,000 human harvest
-10,000 cars
-30,000 winterkill, disease, exhaustion,
=300,000 deer statewide give or take 20,000.

Just estimates but to me they are plausible.

This seems reasonable. I'd put the buck/doe ratio a bit lower, but still seems reasonable.

 

It is a wonder after the winter of 48-49 any deer survived. Yet in the 50's and 60's there was some great hunting.There was also less predators.In the 60's when I was old enough to go with my dad .We would always find bucks in areas today you won't find any deer.By the time I started hunting in the early 70's it got tougher to find bucks. We also had some big winters in the eightys. I remember 1 year numbers were so low I didn't buy a tag. This year although we seen a fair amount of does, the buck numbers seem way down.

 

From what I seen on the hunt I'd say 80,000 for the whole state not 800,000 lol

 

My thoughts exactly.

I did some serious looking this winter....
Lowest/poorest number I've seen since 2002/ 03...
The elk in spots are bad too.