The late snowfall was brutal but thankfully short. Before that there was next to nothing for snow. The age structure is improving on the forest fringe but the numbers are nowhere near what they used to be and may never be again. There are a fair amount of up and comers. My place up in 53 is a bright spot in a lot of bleak, but there are pockets here and there. Coyote populations got hammered between decent prices and parvo which is helping the fawn survival.
We did a 25 KM hike in Sask Landing Park last Saturday. For those that don't know that's some rough river break country by our standards, and the sort of thing that you could use to train for mountain hunting. No vehicle use in there. We saw a grand total of 5 deer, all whitetails. Back when things were good that would have been hundreds, and mostly mulies.
Watch out for outfitters that are claiming lots of big ones; they're likely to lie about other things too.
