One of Wyoming’s flagship mule deer herds has lost more than half of its animals to an unusual inverted snowpack that’s still killing scores of animals well into April.
The dire …
One of Wyoming’s flagship mule deer herds has lost more than half of its animals to an unusual inverted snowpack that’s still killing scores of animals
Wyoming mule deer and pronghorns are dying from starvation due to snow that’s buried their favorite shrubs, a lack of wind that usually clears hillsides for foraging and below-zero temperatures.
Precipitation and water content in the mountain snowfields were just above average, but not extraordinary, in most of western Wyoming. At low elevations, though, the snow depths shattered records and killed tens of thousands of ungulates.
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