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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wct12" data-source="post: 391524" data-attributes="member: 8117">One of my big topics of discussion and something i have a big gripe is something i did make a Facebook post about... After last nights advisory board meeting, lets actually talk about "Protecting the Herd".. The number 1 detriment to the deer herd in North Dakota is harsh winters and the starvation it then causes. Casey Anderson and Scott Pederson both agreed with that.. So does this article from the G&F Website (look at those reductions in numbers in 2J1 and 2J2.)<a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgf.nd.gov%2Fmagazine%2F2023%2Fjun%2Ftoll-of-a-tough-winter%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0LXZ6UTmPjrnF2C4dIiFn8lr6zxloIjLSTv1CKPllF1fpKzj41X7j0YnM%23%3A~%3Atext%3DFor%2520example%252C%2520they%2520saw%2520a%2C10%2520to%2520April%25207&h=AT2MZbzVxJpefDhIB3Dfg2uLTJTyXfmgBue3FcbeUl-jyL-_LdOMRNwkl_xfNhrAAu-mq5mh1BvC2X5rx-CoLJv5h_OFlrAyhgMd_hhltlmMKC_Yg3TV_Dk4xXHMI1Zh4W90&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT1GIojG_0AmbncvdBs910mCSLfbc2HE_k8_blStsPckBelDTVirW_ebnqfXF1VGrkMFc2xtwLq78jPj5uwRI-uA9xEafjJIMqPqFTXiu-DQgDC8AZhjeJnL2NFO34xHwNiNpfR3EZGdRWQKko102ClTTXSWVqj3x9RBqHoK-pvHfrNK-3b-" target="_blank">https://gf.nd.gov/maga.../2023/jun/toll-of-a-tough-winter...</a>.Instead of having to put quotes like this in articles“We get a lot of help from people in the Department when it comes to aerial surveys, but it comes down to four big game biologists for the whole state of North Dakota trying to manage deer, trying to keep deer on the landscape to provide hunting opportunities,” he said. “And then you get a winter like this that comes along, and you come back into the Jamestown yard and see people unloading all these dead deer that they’ve picked up, and it’s just like ‘man alive.’”Imagine if the Game and Fish actually cared about "Protecting the Herd" and Sportsmen's opportunities and implemented something like what Utah did last winter.<a href="https://wildlife.utah.gov/news/utah-wildlife-news/1588-dwr-implements-emergency-deer-feeding-in-northern-utah-due-to-deep-snow-and-poor-condition.html?fbclid=IwAR2qkHdj7wwcX5_D8oWzuN-hGYiNEHNlGQed9O_KAMwyDWwg1GP3odihk6I" target="_blank">https://wildlife.utah.gov/.../1588-dwr-implements...</a>This is a direct quote from the article posted on the ND Game and Fish website"Smith said what they observed from their aerial offices over 6-plus weeks of survey time was discouraging. For example, they saw a 51% decrease in white-tailed deer and an 84% decrease in mule deer in the Wing-Tuttle area (hunting units 2J1 and 2J2) from Jan. 10 to April 7."2J1 and 2J2 have not had a single CWD positive and are not within 25 miles of a unit that has had a case so baiting is still allowed, and therefore would fall into the same criteria that Utah uses when it comes to where they can and cannot emergency feed deer due to CWD.What would the opportunity for sportsmen look like, and how much of the herd would have been "protected" if the game and fish actually invested some dollars into something like emergency feeding that would actually "protect the herd" rather then spend it on billboards and vehicles wraps. It would probably look something like not having to reduce tags by 10,000 for this season.North Dakota will never get back to the CRP numbers we had 20 years ago plus shelterbelts and old yards are getting ripped out all the time.. The game and fish has good intentions with the dollars they have allocated for habitat, but those dollars would be better suited to go somewhere like a supplemental feeding program like stated above if the habitat deal isn't attainable.</blockquote>

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