Thu, May 18th, 2023 - 10:48am
June 14, 2022 - 6:28am | By Kyle Cornell
(Bismarck, ND) -- The North Dakota State Game and Fish officials say the mule deer population is strengthening after a mild winter.
The department's annual spring survey indicates the mule deer population is up 13 percent from last year and 34-percent above the long-term average. Biologists have surveyed the same 24 areas since the 1950s.
The spring count is a change from last fall's demographic survey, which showed the lowest fawn-to-doe ratio since 2012.