If you were seeing deer early and now there gone Id say you have wolves running around. Happens all the time around Mather. One week youll see deer, then all of a sudden there gone. It's the wolves! They need to be thinned down a bunch in the Meadow Valley area. I own and hunt land south of there where we have managed it on our own. Taking bucks no less than 4 on a side and trying to keep the buck to doe ratio 2:1. I see deer all the time. I understand the public property issues, but if people are complaining about land they own, then it's there own fault.