Gunner wrote:


So you are claiming then, that yours is one of the very few places
that deer populations are declining? Cites if you would.

It's not a claim, and it's not "very few places". Why do you ask for
cites *after* you made up your mind and ridiculed the local information
offered? Well here ya' go anyway - declining populations in your own
state and all across the southwest. From
http://www.nationalreview.com/swan/swan050602.asp

****************Out west, however, there's the mule deer (odocoileus
hemionus), and its subspecies the blacktail. Unlike their eastern
relatives, mule deer and blacktails are on the decline. In California,
in the late 1950s, there were two million mule and blacktail deer.
Today, California Fish and Game estimates that there are but 600,000. A
similar pattern can be found through the mule deer's range in Idaho,
Wyoming, Nevada, Washington, Utah, Montana, Arizona, and Colorado.
**********

Just think how old they'll be when they finally come out of hiding! Keep
in mind that these are overall numbers, and that things can be even
worse in areas with the most development and accessible hunting areas.
http://tinyurl.com/3ftmv
(http://www.usgs.nau.edu/proceedings/...ing_mule%20dee
r.pdf) http://www.azdeer.org/why_name_change.htm
http://www.muledeernet.org/AZtrends.htm

Wayne