Researchers monitor mule deer in southwest herds

Wildlife researchers are trapping mule deer in southwest Wyoming to learn more about migration patterns, habitat use, survival and other factors important to sustaining a healthy mule deer population.

The trapping is being conducted by personnel from the Game and Fish, Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Wyoming, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service and volunteers.

Research projects continue in the Baggs and Wyoming Range mule deer herds. The Baggs mule deer herd is hunt area 82. The Wyoming Range mule deer herd is one of the largest herd units...