Tag Reductions for Deer, Pronghorn in Parts of Eastern Oregon - Due to High Winter Mortality

  Temperatures never reached freezing for 28 consecutive days and hit as low as -23 in Baker County, Oregon this past winter. The snow depth exceeded 18 inches throughout the county. District Wildlife Biologist Brian Ratliff compared this years winter to 1993-94. It came early, it lasted long and the snow kept accumulating, he said. We have had winters like this historically but not in the last 10 years. Early spring flight surveys of mule deer showed the winter took... READ MORE