Whitetail Biologists...
 

Hey folks I was just wondering where a person goes to find the contact information for biologists studying Whitetails in Alberta? Or if you can't contact the biologists, are their studies available for public use?

call your local fish and wildlife office they should be able to help, or contact alberta fish and game association

Go to University of Calgary
 

Hi: Check out some published works of Dr. Valerius Geist. I think he is a prof at the university of calgary. He studies ungulates in Alberta.

There are a number of biologist you can find that work at the Alberta Conservation Association as well as the U of A.

Cheers,

Hoopi

Val Geist IS the authority in ungulates, at least for NA deer and also mountain sheep. He is a close friend and a valuable source of unbiased/accurate information. He has authored a book on WT's (White Tail tracks_Out of print but available from Amazon), another one called "Deer of the world" again, only available used from Amazon. He retired from UOC a few years back.

There is another great book by Koller called "Shots at whitetail". It is an awesome read.

CH

Thanks folks. I'll look into the titles and organisations.

Contact Dr. Mark Boyce who chairs the ACA Chair in Fish and Wildlife at the U of A. Great resource and avid hunter.

mark.boyce@ualberta.ca

I just did a google search "white-tail research Alberta" and as I suspected there doesn't seem to be any going on or really any that came up.


Some years ago F&W was gathering lots of info from deer killed at camp Wainwright by hunters. Bill Wishart was a wildlife Bio with F&W at the time. And in those days F&W actually did some research.

Val Geist used to hunt deer at camp Wainwright and I suspect he did enough research there to assure he would have venison during the winter.