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    Best Colorado antelope units?

    Try NMex
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    Wy area 108 antelope numbers?

    Similar to other antelope units along I80, antelope numbers and tag allotments are about as low as they ever have been. I noticed there were 0 nonres random tags issued in 2025 in 108. Good luck drawing a tag if there are any allotted and you have few pts.
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    Wyoming Pref Point Purchase Time Allowed

    There is no guarantee that things will stay the same in Wyo or any other state. If Wyo ever converted to 90/10 it will take twice the years for nonres to draw limited tags. Also, with the Wyo nonres landowner limited draw system.....every limited tag in a unit could potentially go to nonres...
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    Fire Science and Wild Sheep

    I thought I would include a few photos from properties here in Colorado after the Calwood Wildfire in 2020 that compare burn severity of cheatgrass infested vs cheatgrass controlled sites. The photo above shows the contrast in native species vs fine-fueled continuous cheatgrass in sprayed...
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    Fire Science and Wild Sheep

    I can always tell a cheatgrass-fueled fire because the area is totally black char. Even the lichens in the soil and on rock that take centuries to grow a few inches totally burn! We've had prescribed burns and wildfires that burn through areas we've controlled cheatgrass. Those fires burn...
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    Fire Science and Wild Sheep

    Here is an interesting article about mule deer and cheatgrass. https://wyofile.com/mule-deer-could-lose-half-their-northeast-wyoming-habitat-to-cheatgrass-without-help/
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    Fire Science and Wild Sheep

    Sheep may eat cheatgrass when it's green but the thing about cheatgrass is that the nutrition value is extremely low even when it's green. By June, cheatgrass is dried up, dead, and has 0 nutrition value. It displaces a lot of other native species that are higher in nutrition through the...
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    Fire Science and Wild Sheep

    That's a great article on selective and precise use and benefits of small scale, low intensity burns. Well planned burns can benefit critical wildlife habitat. As mentioned several times in the article, not all fire is good. A prime example of this is high intensity and large-scale...
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    Stone's Sheep Study in B. C. Link

    That is an excellent article on benefits of well planned, precision prescribed burns, however; wildfires and prescribed burns aren't always beneficial. Large scale, high intensity burns can be detrimental to wild sheep, muledeer, elk, and other wild game species habitat. In fact, some areas...
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    CWD research

    It sounds like EHD is currently bad in Wisconsin. There are major localized deer die-offs from EHD and no one blinks an eye! My guess is that the combination of CWD, EHD, harvesting of does, and other factors all impact the deer in that area.
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    CWD research

    The sample size was so small that it’s hard to say what proportion of the herd had resistant genes. It comes down to the Table Mtn herd is doing just fine 45+ years after CWD was documented. CWD prions have been building in soils on this and other sites for 4 to 6 centuries on the Front Range...
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    CWD research

    It’s an even smaller sample size than the Wyo study but there hasn’t been much long-term research on genotypes. What I find interesting about the Table Mesa study is that in the first paragraph it mentions that CWD prevalence and deer abundance has remained surprisingly stable since 2005. CWD...
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    CWD research

    Here's an interesting publication article comparing 2005 with 2025 CWD genotype and mtn lion data...spanning 20ish years. It highlights another good reason for not harvesting older age class bucks. https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-02951-z
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    CWD research

    I would agree that there is a reason why particular genotypes are low in a population and not all genotypes are good. However, what is the alternative? All of the predictions of massive CWD die-offs have never happened. Deer have proven their resilience to battle this disease in the wild...
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    CWD research

    I've included a link below for the CWD study that mentions Wyo deer will go virtually extinct in 41 years. The sample size of deer captured was 143 which is extremely small. It mentions in the report that the majority of collared deer deaths in this study were from mountain lions and CWD was...
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