The deer was originally trapped and collared in February in Montrose, Susquehanna County. In the early summer it left the area and was documented again in Springville, in the southern part of the county. By the end of October, however, Stickles wasn’t able to find the young buck. Until now. On Dec. 1, a Loyalville resident contacted the PGC about a deer photographed on a trail camera that had a collar. PGC biologist Kevin Wenner looked at the pictures and recognized the collar as those being used by the agency as part of its four-year study designed to measure the impacts of a special five-day antlered/seven-day concurrent season established in 2008. Wenner called Stickles, who came to the area and immediately located and identified the deer as the missing buck. That it turned up in Loyalville after being collared in Montrose earlier in the year meant the buck traveled approximately 40 miles. “That’s quite a distance for a deer to travel,†Stickles said. “It’s not the first 40-mile dispersal, but it’s not common either.†During the first two years of the study only one other deer – a doe – traveled farther with a 42-mile jaunt in the north-central part of the state.
