Despite this year’s mild winter, SFW and the DWR are concerned about the health and declining numbers of mule deer on the Cache unit. Yesterday, the DWR and SFW captured a dozen does at Hardware Ranch and another dozen at Bear Lake using GPS tracking collars paid for by SFW. All of the does were then implanted with special devices that will later determine when those deer give birth this spring. SFW Cache chapter has also planned several habitat improvement projects on summer and winter range that will be aided by the use of a $120 thousand D5 Bulldozer modified specifically for wildlife habitat restoration, which SFW purchased and donated to the DWR. The news media turned out in force to cover this important wildlife capture and research project. Kevin Norman, SFW’s new Fundraising and Special Project Manager, was on hand to field media questions.
