Snow is piled shin high. Clouds are hanging fog low. There’s a fence of light-brown netting strung across the ridge and it’s waving in the wind. The only sound louder than the wind is the chopper hovering above. The pilot is herding deer into the net. Wranglers are balled up in wait mode in the sagebrush. No one moves until the net snaps.
“It can be fast and furious, but good work and fun work,” says Curtis Hendricks, Idaho Department of Fish and Game regional wildlife manager. “It’s not easy, but it sheds a lot of light on what’s going on with different populations across the state.”
--Kris Millgate