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<blockquote data-quote="dean nelson" data-source="post: 116559" data-attributes="member: 1305">So they ran roughly the same amount of tags for 6 years and population magically drops at the exact same time as back to back to back severe winters and it was the tag numbers fault. Like was mentioned had we had more deer in 08 and 09 we just would have had more dead deer. When deer start to starve its a cumulative effect having more deer. The average deer takes in less because its devided among more so all of them are weaker as a result. People trying to compare to 96/97 fail to remember that 97/98 through 08 were all light winters for most of the state and the deer herd resonded. Starting in 2008 we had three bad winters in a row....guess what this is ND and one bad winter can reak havoc let alone three! Im assuming it was also the game and fish that took out the pronghorns as well durning this same time?Should they have backed of more that first year then they did ..sure but trying to say high tag number preceding that point is the root cause is not grounded in reality. You cant bank deer above the carrying capacity of any given harsh winter it's just impossible to do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dean nelson, post: 116559, member: 1305"] So they ran roughly the same amount of tags for 6 years and population magically drops at the exact same time as back to back to back severe winters and it was the tag numbers fault. Like was mentioned had we had more deer in 08 and 09 we just would have had more dead deer. When deer start to starve its a cumulative effect having more deer. The average deer takes in less because its devided among more so all of them are weaker as a result. People trying to compare to 96/97 fail to remember that 97/98 through 08 were all light winters for most of the state and the deer herd resonded. Starting in 2008 we had three bad winters in a row....guess what this is ND and one bad winter can reak havoc let alone three! Im assuming it was also the game and fish that took out the pronghorns as well durning this same time? Should they have backed of more that first year then they did ..sure but trying to say high tag number preceding that point is the root cause is not grounded in reality. You cant bank deer above the carrying capacity of any given harsh winter it's just impossible to do. [/QUOTE]

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