Different populations can be declining for a number of reasons, including habitat loss, but populations in one place might be declining for entirely different reasons than populations in another place, ... Until we know where specific individuals spend the summer and winter, we cannot properly address the causes of the population declines.

Lafayette Central Catholic was by far the quickest team we've played since we played Pike (a 62-40 loss) in December. We prepared for their traps, but their energy and excitement was there for 32 minutes.

The striking thing about this is that hair-loss syndrome is just not consistent from one valley to the next. There are places where it is much more severe and other locations where it really doesn't seem to be much of a problem. Regionally there seems to be more affected animals in Linn, Benton and Lincoln counties with low fawn-to-adult deer ratios in the spring.

There's no question about it - hair-loss syndrome is still a problem.

There's still crude out there that can make up for any loss in production.

This was a tough loss for our team. I was very proud of the way the guys conducted themselves in this game. The game was over before it was over, and they showed a lot of class and they continued to play and fight until the end.