University, sportsmen look at struggling western Wyoming mule deer herds

It’s 8:12 a.m. June 9 on the western slope of the Wyoming Range Mountains. The report from University of Wyoming PhD student, Melinda Nelson, that 10 Vaginal Implant Transmitters (VIT) have been dropped, means a possible 20 fawns to find, test, and collar. Without haste Nelson phones the VIT locations to project leader Dr. Kevin Monteith from the UW Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Monteith and his research team in the field consisting of representatives from Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming Game and Fish Department and the Muley Fanatic Foundation begin their trek to a location...