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So I just got back from a little road trip over to central Montana, I had been to the area about 5 years ago and it seemed to hold a very good population of both whitetail & mule deer but to my disappointment I saw few deer in the area. I have read recently that EHD has affected some areas of MT and I am wondering if it hit central real hard or if it was bad winters or what?
Perhaps it just seemed like numbers were way down? I did see some pretty good sized groups of mule deer but very few whitetails, it just seems like there were deer everywhere the last time I was there and it was about this same time of year...
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So I just got back from a little road trip over to central Montana, I had been to the area about 5 years ago and it seemed to hold a very good population of both whitetail & mule deer but to my disappointment I saw few deer in the area. I have read recently that EHD has affected some areas of MT and I am wondering if it hit central real hard or if it was bad winters or what?
Perhaps it just seemed like numbers were way down? I did see some pretty good sized groups of mule deer but very few whitetails, it just seems like there were deer everywhere the last time I was there and it was about this same time of year... It hits whitetails harder as they usually congregate along streams and river bottoms where the insect that carries it thrives.Eastern CO was hit with it two years ago in different locals
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2-3 winters ago it was tough in eastern and Central montana and then that spring EHD hit double wammy. Missoula also go some EHD that showed up in some whitetail first time EHD has showed up on the west side of Montana.
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It hit hardest in the summer of 2011, following the hardest winter on record here. EHD showed up again in 2012, and 2013. Some estimates ran as high as 98% kill on Whitetail along the Milk River. It also accounted for thinning out thousands of antelope all across Eastern Montana.
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NC Montana has been hit hard -- Not so much the weather in our area but EHD. Whitetails, which were all over 6-8 years ago, are almost gone.
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2-3 winters ago it was tough in eastern and Central montana and then that spring EHD hit double wammy. Missoula also go some EHD that showed up in some whitetail first time EHD has showed up on the west side of Montana. That is scary to me, I hate to hear it has made it onto the west slope, I hate to hear about it anywhere but that's getting pretty close to home.
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Closer than the EHD/BTV outbreaks in ID and WA last year?
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About the same distance I guess, not sure exactly how far north it came. I heard there was some in Lewiston/Clarkston area on ID/WA line, that's about same distance as Missoula from us.
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The EHD in Missoula was in a pretty concentrated area along the Clarkfork where deer numbers were very high. I hunt whitetail in the mountains within a couple miles of the outbreak and the deer I hunt weren't affected.
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About the same distance I guess, not sure exactly how far north it came. I heard there was some in Lewiston/Clarkston area on ID/WA line, that's about same distance as Missoula from us. It hit parts of Eastern Washington really hard last summer. All the way up to north of Spokane. The dry years and areas with limited water and concentrated whitetails always get it the worst. With the way it is shaping up so far this early spring, we might have another round of it this coming summer.
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