Not Good

Yes this is a sad thing.  Is this a G&F truck that picked these up?

WOW!!!

Oh my gosh!  I will have to show Jimmy when he gets back.  Thank you for the info--it is a very sad site, but one we all were wondering & ya- who picked them up?

Sad indeed. This latest snow system we just had isn't going to help at all. Could be the deciding factor for alot of wildlife.

Just mother nature keeping it real.
This last cold snap really has them tipping over  the last couple days.

That's the same truck that was pulling the mountain lion trailer a couple of years ago.

Tim thanks for the photo, but no thanks. That is very sad. If it was't for the food that we have in our location the situation would the same. 

Maybe the opponent of feeding deer should see this picture.

I agree with introC, I doubt the NDGF has nothing better to do even during the winter than to walk the countryside and pick up dead deer.

I would guess that this is the deer herd that typically hangs out just east of Zahl and bounces back and forth across the highway there.  Some winter killed, some pickup killed.  It's a pretty big cattle feeding operation (at least it was when I lived up in that corner of the state) that had tons of deer hanging out all winter.

This truck and trailer load of deer came from two farms near Zahl.  There are about twenty five in the truck and another fifty in the trailer.  There were more but they were frozen down and will be retrieved later.  I have talked with some farmers who happen to be feeding deer out of their hale piles and while some look great others have died even though food was available.  Some of these farms have three to four hundred deer and more that have moved in.  While I don't know how it is in the rest of the state the Williston area is very bad and without the farmers help the losses would be way worse.  The NDG&F is helping out but many times it is the farmers and sometimes sportsmen that can make a big differance.  A customer of ours was one of the guys who went to get this load and there will be more and while it is not pretty it does give us a better picture of what is happening while many of us hunters are sitting by a warm and cozey fireplace.  Andy

Not to get off topic, but I would be perfectly satisfied knowing that this is where hot dogs come from. Seems those carcasses have to go somewhere...

i seem to remember starting a discussion about this(see "will there be any deer left). 

I said that deer in NW ND will suffer,  and they are suffering.  

I wonder if we'll see 3rd and 4th tags this year,  or any tags at all..

That is horable i have never seen anything like it!!

Triggerman...."Depredation hunts" that Montana holds are kinda of stupid.....  They obviously do it late enough so the "Hunters" or shooters I'll call them, don't know if they are killing bucks or does.....and the real stupid shooters, will actually pick out the "Biggest" deer to shoot,   usually they kill more of next years bucks by doing this. 

Depredation hunts are truly stupid....you can't kill enough deer to make much of a difference.   Its feel good medicine.,  It does little to nothing.

kinda like giving out too many gun tags so "in case" we have a bad winter there won't be any depredation calls.....It don't work. 

The deer in the Picture come from the area up where I farm,   no there's no deer left.

Mother Nature works in mysterious ways....Not saying I dont hate to see this but....thats how natue deals with it. I am originally from Western Kentucky. In 2007 we had the worst drought in 137 years. CWD took a major impact on the states deer population. Then a game warden told us that the state of Kentucky loses 100,000 deer per year due to vehicle impact.  If you drive around the entire state of North Dakota and picked every deer up off the highway dead from vehicle impact it would give you that same gut feeling. Some may look for a different hobby...me, I am gonna hunt harder!

Pretty sure I saw this same picture on here last year.

Pretty sure I saw this same picture on here last year.

Get over it guys (and gals) this in an old picture from a couple of years ago.  Move on!

i wish i would see that many deer alive in my area during rifle season.

LIFT EM

that is stictly road kill not that uncommon