Yep, yotes get so much blame
We have a lot of em here too. I even shoot em now and then.
But I keep track of my local deer by camera all year round.
I actually know for a fact that I"ve been as much as 3 straight years where there was either 100 percent survival of the fawns, OR I know where they were killed on the roadway.
This year we seem to have low survival and its a first, but we are fairly high rabbit cycle and I suspect that there is another factor called floods about the birthing times. It was bad here right then.
I seriously doubt all of a sudden they figured out how to kill fawns and with all the cover available it should have been a big job to kill fawns. But they sure could have.
Regardless most wild varmints are kept in check typically, though hide prices have hurt that the last many years and I have to whack a handful of coons now and then just to help... kinda sucks just wasting animals.
