Pinedale Anticline deer population drops

Pinedale Mesa deer population drops

by Cat Urbigkit, Star Tribune correspondent | Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010

PINEDALE -- Mule deer on the Mesa near Pinedale have declined 60 percent in 2009 compared to 2001, and the animals' numbers are 28 percent lower in 2009 than in 2005, according to the most recent research on the matter.  The Mesa hosts the Pinedale Anticline natural gas field, and the deer decline has been tracked as part of an ongoing research project that has continued for more than a decade, paid for by industrial companies developing energy resources in the region.

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