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Old 05-21-2012, 09:56 PM
Justin Black Justin Black is offline
 
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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?
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Old 05-21-2012, 10:01 PM
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call your local fish and wildlife office they should be able to help, or contact alberta fish and game association
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Old 05-21-2012, 10:23 PM
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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.

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Old 05-21-2012, 10:43 PM
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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
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Old 05-22-2012, 07:51 AM
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Thanks folks. I'll look into the titles and organisations.
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Old 05-22-2012, 10:37 AM
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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
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Old 05-22-2012, 11:17 AM
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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.
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