Just saw this picture take in the past couple of days in Leavenworth Washington. The amount of snow recently is unbelievable. All the routes (I-90, US Hwy2, State Route 12) have been closed for a couple of days, and probably will be until at least Sunday. Snow avalanches even in low elevation residential areas.
Odds are probably not good for these deer in the town of Leavenworth.
We are going to make an attempt to get to our lake property tomorrow; taking chainsaws, snowshoes, and lot of gas.

That has to be hard on the herd

3 feet of snow there in the last 24 hours.

Wowza

Not good for an already declining deer population

Is that Western Washington or Eastern? Hoping not Eastern…hope the turkeys survive.

That’s unbelievable! I feel for wildlife in conditions like that

Eastern Washington.
Western Washington had a lot of snow for a few days, but it all melted off like it always does. Eastern Washington is a different story; it will be on the ground all winter now.

Thanks…my brother lives in Spokane and sent me a pic of 12” or snow that fell with that last storm. He did say the “other side of the mountain” has it way worse.

That's harsh- a lot of mortality happens closer to spring, snow melts and browse line is out of reach. Freezing temps add to the severity index not to mention predators are able to run on the hard crust when deer break through it.

A lot of mortality happens when they are starving throughout the winter. Not so much because of predation. They will start to canablize their own cells and come through the winter but there body can not reverse the process and they die in the late spring.

I am about 50 miles north of Spokane. We had a chinook blow through yesterday then it cooled off again last night. We still have a couple feet of snow now with a heavy crust over it. If we don't get another melt it will be super hard on the deer. Hopefully it will kill every turkey in the area.

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I guess I'm not the only person who views turkeys as an an invasive species.

They are an invasive species. They weren't here until some idiot from the game dept. planted them. I can't believe some of the Eco-terrorists aren't pushing for them to be removed because they impact native species like they have for northern pike,walleye,lake trout,brook trout etc.,etc.,etc.

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