Drought

[paleoman]

#3099

If you were affected by the 2012 drought..have conditions in your area improved this spring? Here in saw Michigan we are the Saudi Arabia of wet! Record river levels, etc. I look at the US Drought Monitor site and I think the areas have shrunk but am curious how fellow bowbenders are faring in your neck of the woods.

[Ralph]

#16431

Let’s see. 2011= 7″, 2012= 13″, 2013= 3+( about .5″ above normal) and that was mostly because of our 19″ blizzard that put the biggest part of the snow in piles. So we are still under the gun. Our area is semi-arid I think, but we normally get around 19″-20″ a year and usually when it counts for growing we get half or so of that. So every drop counts around here.

Getting green in the bar ditches and on fence rows where the snow piled up.

Haven’t heard a single quail this spring, deer OK as they water at stock tanks ( I think part of the world calls them ?ponds? 😀 ). Windmills, like a century ago, are the life blood of range land.

Take a gander of this part of the world on Google Earth and it’s amazing at the crop circle (pivot) irrigation. No wonder the ground water is going away.

Lake Meredith, once 105′ is now 28.5′. Sad.

Maybe get better. :D:D

[Raymond Coffman]

#17534

Drought has been Bad here in the SW for years.

All the Tanks in the Gila are Low or dry! Few turkeys around [very few Gobblers].

The Game & fish are killing 100 of the 200[head] herd of Elk that took up residence in the “Bosque Del Apache” {woods of the apache}refuge [on the Rio Grande-very low] because they are competing with the Sandhill Cranes!!Don’t get me started on the Depredation/Landowner dynamics in NM. In a nutshell The “Guvmint” lets the Landowners kill them and leave them [to rot] eventually/ sometimes have some depredation hunts- rarely timely. sorry I am a lil Cranky as I didn’t draw Elk again this year!

So — We need some Rain & Snow down here —–

Scout.

[Ed Ashby]

#17700

Still really dry here in South Texas (south end of the Edwards Plateau, about 80 miles north of Del Rio). Many ranches totally de-stocked. Most of the juniper has died in my area. Oaks and mesquites still hanging in, but there have been no acorns or mesquite beans for the last two years, and looks like none for this year. Just spent $3000.00 to keep my windmill producing water for the game and have been feeding year-round ever since I moved here. Don’t think there would be much game around if a few folks didn’t have water and food out for them. Deer population noticeably down but the hogs and turkeys are holding their own (with help). Still, not the worst drought on record. The drought of the 1950’s was worse, and lasted longer than this one (so far).

Ed

[jpcarlson]

#17928

Western South Dakota here, was a very dry fall/winter until the middle of March. Kattie bar the door, it decided we needed all of our moisture late and it has been snow storm after storm rolling through for the past month. It is all welcome and seems to be soaking in, but spring is late at this latitude. Gobblers don’t quite know what to do with all the bad weather but several friends have stuck one with stick and string so far. We’ll see if it will put things back on track as we were quite low on the precip.

JPC

[Ralph]

#17953

Ahh, Scout the wisdom of the all knowing. We have tons of sandhill cranes here in the panhandle that we’d love to trade for a couple hundred head of elk. Glad we have tanks. Ponds would be dry too methinks.

Like the island off the coast of Ca., Santa Rosa Is. Get rid of deer and elk to get back to nature. Let’s see how many years before some friends of a Senator begin subsidizing the island and putting the most offensive, destructive life form on it. Grumpy, I borrow some grump from ya. 😀

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