Mule Deer: Saving the Icon of the West
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- Few memories are as cherished by hunters as a mule deer hunt amid majestic Western scenery. This one-hour documentary celebrates the mule deer as a symbol of the wild and open spaces of western North America. Viewers go on a visual journey through some of the most impressive and scenic landscapes on Earth-places that mule deer call home. Today, mule deer are facing many challenges on the West's modern landscape. Urbanization, energy development, competition from other species, drought, predation, long-term habitat change, invasive species, and a host of other factors have led to alarming declines in mule deer populations and hunter opportunity. This production examines the current status of mule deer throughout their historic range and looks at the issues affecting the species, projects to restore and enhance mule deer habitat, and trends for the long-term. This documentary is a joint effort by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies and the Mule Deer Foundation.
As a mule deer hunter in Nevada I really admire the mule deer. It's mostly the experince you have with family and friends that makes those moments very special. And when you see that mule deer out in the field its just and unbelivable experince that only a hunter can experince. Respect game and enjoy it for lifes to come.
I'm 15 and I've already shot a 3x2 mule deer and a 4x3 mule deer, they weren't all that big but they were my first 2 bucks. I live in B.C, Canada so I'm very lucky because 5 minutes out my doorstep and I'm in prime mountain mule deer country. Youth hunt here lasts from Sept. 1-10 and just last week I passed up a nice 4 point. I realized that it was too small so I decided to let it go when I had it in my scope at 60 yards. I'm glad I did, hopefully I'll receive good karma and shoot a monster!
Great job! 👍
Great informative video.
This is a great documentary! With due respect, though, the mule deer is not the only North American big game species whose population is in decline. Try caribou, for example.
You anti hunters are amazingly ignorant...when hunting is done under regulations, it is good for the population..we are a part of nature, we help keep the numbers within the carrying capacity of the environment..we take mostly bucks anyway, and the remaining bucks breed most if not all of the does anyway..hunters have helped to implement regulations and through our care, we've put money into conservation projects, and have vastly increased the populations and habitats of many species.. habitat loss, road kills, these are bigger problems that you anti-hunters are a part of.
Anti-hunters do nothing for wildlife. They protest, hold signs, wear ribbons, block traffic, etc... The hunters are the ones with boots on the ground to preserve wildlife.
I agree that hunting and conservation go hand in hand. However, I don't agree that predator control will help in the long term.Overall though it was a good documentary.
Deborah, I have hunted these deer for as long as I can remember and there is nothing wrong with shooting these deer. In some areas they are nusiances and overrunning urban areas. Seriously, do your research before making ignorant comments about what you don't understand. Shame on you. These deer are elegant and beautiful, given, but they are an important source of food for people. Again, do your research before making ignorant comments. And it isn't murder either. Murder is taking a HUMAN life. Murder is wrongly taking a life but when you shoot a deer for meat, it isn't a wrongful death. Shame on you.
I don’t know if this documentary is out of date, but the Wikipedia article on mule deer lists them as not threatened by whatever organization determines such things. Being from large a East Coast city, I have never been a hunter, but I certainly have no moral objection if people legally hunt such animals for their meat. For the life of me, I don’t; see how anyone but a vegetarian can object to hunting; otherwise, it is pure hypocrisy. I wish you happy and safe hunting!
Sadly, you think murdering these elegant, beautiful creatures for a trophy is an "adrenalin rush like no other." That is very psychotic. You say you love being out in nature, and spending time with your family, just talking about life. But you can go hiking and camping, creating beautiful memories with your sons, and grandsons, without murdering innocent animals.
How much funds and time have YOU contributed? I'll bet none.
Deborah Hawes - as you get a bucket of chicken at the Dirty Bird and a flat of ribblets at Darby's.
Fatty Mcbutter Pants hates hunting wild game but stuffs his face with Burger King and Dirty Bird.
You gain a new level of understanding about nature from hunting. Something you cannot gain for hiking. You can care about what you understand. The only thing prolonging these animals existence in the universe is hunting. Without the funds from hunters, and saving wildlife areas for hunting, these animals would already be gone. Hunting is a lifestyle as valid as anyones. Gathering natural, healthy meat to feed your family seems like a pretty good thing to me.
Killing an animal is not murder. Killing a full term baby is! Buy a dictionary. You just pay others to kill for you!
Probably unpopular opinion, no offense to anyone of an opposing opinion, I think if you want to preserve a species you shouldn't go out and hunt it.
YOUR KARMA WILL NOT BE A MONSTER MULE DEER!!! your killing for fun!!! so think about it!!!what you give it is what you will receive!!!
Plant food plots... hunters need to provide same as they do in the south... plant food plots.. and don't force genetics into nontypical racks...respect the hunt, the kill, and the dinner table.... do not devalidate good will by making wildlife conservation into a political weapon... it hurts the good guys on all sides... best to be better than that...
Hunters have always been the biggest advocates for wild life, parks, and habitat... don't talk trash about them... or many of the teachings you depend upon, will be removed from the societal equation in larger measure than they already have been... be of good will.. and honesty... no false claims... no sensationalism... save that for the fishing stories ; )
i dint watch this video to the end
The South is a discrace to the hunt! Might as well just go to the breeders and shoot them in a pen as over a can of corn. FAKETREE!!
Food plots is not real hunting. In my opinion it's closer to poaching.
i cannot understand how stupid people can be!!! they claim,they admire and love these beautiful animals and they kill them just for fun!! i do not get it? you just do not kill something that you admire or love ,YOU PROTECT IT !!! then they expect to receive GOOD KARMA? lol when you are a killing animals that can not even defend themselves they got not weapons like you do!!! well,just think about what your KARMA will be?
xavi you really need to research before talking. Your city and house have already disrupted there habitat, population control now falls on hunters. As you sit there typing in your chair, doing nothing for them. If it weren't for hunters and biologist these poor animals deplete there habitat, starve and hurt themselves worse in the long run. The lion king isn't a good model, that isn't reality by friend.
Why are there no blacks and Asians helping out ? Weird.
Not very many in Wyoming :) Come to think of it though when it comes to protecting animals, helping natural disaster victims, collecting money for various charities, helping starving children in Africa.....ect It's usually us "evil, racist, slave trading xenophobic white people" who do it.
#1 probable coyotes killing fawns in June, no new stock coming up, # 2 cougars killing our breeding stock, and fish and game not doing enough about it