Mule deer survey aims to improve prospects

RBC I As part of ongoing studies, about 500 mule deer in the Piceance Basin and Meeker area will be gathered up and examined over the next two weeks.
“We’ll be examining mitigation methods designed to benefit mule deer,” said Randy Hampton, the Division of Wildlife public information officer for northwest Colorado.
The deer — does and fawns — will be netted from a helicopter, transported to a staging area, examined and then released.
“They…