Brief update...

There have been a number of collared deer harvested this year, at each of the 4 study sites. Most individuals have been fantastic about calling us when they harvested one so that we could arrange to get the collar from them. Thank you for your help.

Surprisingly, there have been less collared deer harvested than I had originally thought. unfortunately, it will be a while before we collect all of the data from this year, and we won't be able to really report any results until we have next year's data also...then we will need to analyze the data.

One thing to note...if you do harvest a collared deer, the collars can be easily removed from the deer with any pair of pliers. Just unscrew the two nuts down near the base of the collar. There is no need to "cut" the collar off with a knife. Please spread the word.