BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 176: Deer in the Southwest with Jim Heffelfinger

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Jim Heffelfinger, Arizona Game and Fish Wildlife Science Co-ordinator, Chairman of the Mule Deer Working Group, wildlife conservation professional, author of Deer of the Southwest.

Coming at you live from the 2024 Mule Deer Expo in Salt Lake City, Hal catches up with one of America’s rockstars of wildlife conservation and research, Arizona’s Jim Heffelfinger. The conversation roams and wanders, from mule deer and blacktails, habitat and CWD, to Mexican wolves and hunting javelina, with a side trip into the mystique and glory of the Colt 1911. If you have half as much fun listening to it as Jim and Hal had recording it, this episode will rank among the best ever.

Also, this episode celebrates the publication of the comprehensive textbook, Ecology and Management of Blacktailed and Mule Deer of North America, which Jim co-edited. Hal and Jim forgot to talk about the book, but it is a crucial resource for anyone interested in the current state and likely future of our mule deer and blacktails.

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0:00.0	On long-term habitat changes, on fire for meildere, on elk and meildere interactions and competition,
0:09.0	on hybrids between white tail and meildere, all of these really interesting topics that people talk about.
0:14.0	There's 45 of these fact sheets on our website that you can go and read in plain common language
0:18.9	about a lot of scientific mumbo jumbo.
0:21.2	That's the kind of thing that we produce and we've been putting out.
0:24.8	Really weather is what is driving these deer populations, but that doesn't mean that we just
0:30.4	sit back and fold our arms and say, well, weather's driving everything, we don't need to do anything.
0:34.3	The Nuexian Wolf, which is a separately listed entity on the Endangered Species Act,
0:38.7	it's not just another population of wolves. It's a separate ESA listed animal. We're trying to
0:45.8	recover it and having wolves drops off in Colorado that have Canadian genomes
0:51.3	that causes a lot of concern for us that care about Mexican
0:54.2	wolves.
0:55.2	The Melder working group in conjunction with the University of Wyoming and the Wyoming Migration Initiative
0:59.1	and Casey Stemler who was put in charge for the Fish and Wildlife Services, where we brought in
1:03.2	Mueller biologists from all over the West, it showed them the software package that
1:07.0	University of Wyoming had developed that allows you to pretty easily take your
1:10.2	radio collar data and map these movement corridors.
1:13.5	If all biologists in the west are doing it
1:15.2	with the same software, that's really powerful.
1:19.4	Hey everybody, Hal hearing,
1:21.4	Backcountry hunters and English podcast and blast.
1:24.0	Hey, I'm fired up this morning to announce that Savage Arms is going to be sponsoring this
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