Mule deer plan monitors population in Region 6

In the late 1990s, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks developed a mule deer management plan that links population goals, harvest regulations, population monitoring and population modeling. One aspect of the plan was to increase the amount of monitoring scheduled on 13 of the 80 areas statewide designated as mule deer population census areas.

Bitter Creek, a high quality prairie mule deer habitat in Region 6, was one of the 13 new census areas. Bitter Creek is located approximately 25 miles northwest of Glasgow and 25 miles south of the Canadian border.

FWP selected Bitter Creek to be the first i...