Deer

OGDEN -- Because of a new management plan adopted late last year, wildlife officials in Utah are recommending a small reduction in the total number of permits issued to hunt buck deer in the state this fall.

OGDEN — Four young people ran naked through the street, one armed with a BB gun, early Sunday morning.

Around 2 a.m. Sunday, a male reported that his girlfriend saw three males and a female streaking along Bonneville Terrace Drive, near 5200 South, according to the Weber County Sheriff’s Office. The news release from the sheriff’s office also indicates that the girlfriend saw one of the males carrying a BB gun.

The area is just to the southeast of the Ogden city limits in a residential area of unincorporated Weber County.

LOGAN -- An ongoing wildlife study is tracking the mortality rates of Utah's mule deer population.

The Herald Journal of Logan reports preliminary data from the three-year program has found about 85 percent of adult female deer survive from year to year. Only 50 percent of fawns survive.

Utah's Division of Wildlife Resources spokesman Mark Hadley said the study began in 2009. Biologists tagged more than 400 deer that year with electronic collars in seven areas across the state.

If the collar stops moving for an extended period of time, it sends a mortality signal to biologists.

HARRISVILLE -- It's a redneck Christmas on Larsen Lane where Isaac Oberg has created a unique outdoor display.

Oberg, a self-proclaimed redneck, has three lighted Christmas deer in his yard. One deer is hanging from a tree with red lights representing flowing entrails, and two are stacked on top of each other simulating copulation with red lights representing male genitalia.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. -- Busted!

Only 25 yards away and nibbling steadily closer, the big doe grazing on the left already had been converted into 50 pounds of chops, steaks, roasts and venison burger in my mind when something caught her eye.

She gave me a laser stare for 10 seconds without raising her head, then whistled an alarm snort, wheeled and bounded over the side of the hill with her two companions hot on her heels.

I thought I was pretty well camouflaged in my tree, which was at the edge of an open area with a thick screen of leaves behind the stand to help hide movement. But she apparently picked up something when I turned on the camera to take a photograph.

BOUNTIFUL -- City officials are expected to revisit the revival of a program to thin the population of domestic deer within city limits.

SALT LAKE CITY — Nighttime deer poachers beware — that shadowy creature on the side of the road may just be remote-controlled.