Utah Biologists Keeping Close Eye on Deer

By Vanessa Torres

Utah -( about the challenges feeding poses to deer.

Monitoring four things

At checkpoints this past fall, DWR biologists measured the amount of fat on deer taken by hunters. The amount of fat deer have in the fall is important; when food is hard to find in the winter, deer rely on their fat reserves to get them through the season.

Shannon says the deer that came through the checkpoints were in really good condition. “They had plenty of fat reserves,” he says.

Keeping in mind the amount of fat the deer had last fall, Shannon says biologists are monitoring four things this winter:

The amount of food available to the deer
How deep the snow gets
How cold the temperature gets
The amount of body fat they find on deer that have been killed along roads
If at least three of the four factors reach a critical point, biologists will consider feeding deer the specially designed pellets. The pellets are formulated to fit the complex digestive system mule deer have.

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