Bears get in the neighborhood of 40% of the fawns in multiple studies.
Always interesting to see what happens to critter populations when someone really lays into wolves on a particular island. Night and day really. Get even 5 or 6 wolves on an island and deer populations plummet. We have the luxury of watching it happen. Those year that we had a tiny wolf quota killed us.
Originally Posted by AKduck
They certainly don’t help. Though locally I put more damage on the deer population to black bears. Bears are crafty at catching those fresh dropped fawns.
Oh and the road guys shooting does and then wondering why they don’t see deer on the roads anymore.
