Local sportsman’s groups donate trail cameras to benefit mule deer management
Thanks to the Mule Deer Foundation and Wyoming Outdoorsmen, wildlife managers with Game and Fish now have 30 new remote trail cameras to help collect important information about mule deer herds in the Cody area.
The trail cameras will be used in conjunction with other techniques currently used to monitor mule deer populations in order to provide managers and the public with the best information to make management decisions.
Cody Wildlife Biologist Tony Mong said these cameras are a step towards the future of data collection for mule deer in the Cody area. “We plan to use the cameras along migration routes delineated from the Eastern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem mule deer project in the Clarks Fork and Upper Shoshone mule deer herds to collect age and sex class information, evaluate annual and seasonal body condition of deer, timing of migration and estimate winter mortality of fawns,” Mong said.
“Specials thanks to the Mule Deer Foundation and Wyoming Outdoorsman for providing us with this important tool,” Mong said.
Photo captions:
From left to right: Keith Norleen, Kristina Norleen Co-chairs of Yellowstone Chapter of the Mule Deer Foundation, Powell Game Warden Chris Queen, Cody Wildlife Biologist Tony Mong and North Cody Game Warden Travis Crane.
From left to right: Wyoming Outdoorsmen board member Bobby Kondash, North Cody Game Warden Travis Crane, Wildlife Biologist Tony Mong, Wyoming Outdoorsmen President Jay Jochim and South Cody Game Warden Grant Gerharter.
The trail cameras will be used in conjunction with other techniques currently used to monitor mule deer populations in order to provide managers and the public with the best information to make management decisions.
Cody Wildlife Biologist Tony Mong said these cameras are a step towards the future of data collection for mule deer in the Cody area. “We plan to use the cameras along migration routes delineated from the Eastern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem mule deer project in the Clarks Fork and Upper Shoshone mule deer herds to collect age and sex class information, evaluate annual and seasonal body condition of deer, timing of migration and estimate winter mortality of fawns,” Mong said.
“Specials thanks to the Mule Deer Foundation and Wyoming Outdoorsman for providing us with this important tool,” Mong said.
Photo captions:
From left to right: Keith Norleen, Kristina Norleen Co-chairs of Yellowstone Chapter of the Mule Deer Foundation, Powell Game Warden Chris Queen, Cody Wildlife Biologist Tony Mong and North Cody Game Warden Travis Crane.
From left to right: Wyoming Outdoorsmen board member Bobby Kondash, North Cody Game Warden Travis Crane, Wildlife Biologist Tony Mong, Wyoming Outdoorsmen President Jay Jochim and South Cody Game Warden Grant Gerharter.
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