Tatonka, I think you folks over in the Havre area have been hit especially hard this winter, I recall the early storm you had in Sept. i believe, the one that knocked down quite a few power poles and line. Over here in Glasgow, winter has been about normal really, we have had a few snows, last weeks storm was probably the biggest producer of snow here, having about 6-8 inches on the ground. But thankfully we have had a couple breaks in the weather to. As for EHD, Us in NE corner of Montana had record snows in the winter of 2010-11, followed by flooding in the spring, and then more flooding in the summer, thus adding to the standing water areas, basically a perfect storm for killing off the deer heard. We lost a significant percentage of deer that winter, but the worse was worst was yet to come with EHD. EHD is a miserable death to deer, no doubt about it, I had a friend who would check the irrigation gates and would find beautiful bucks, dead on the ground from EHD. With that terrible winter, then the flooding and propagation of the midges that spread EHD, we lost over 90% of our whitetail herd. No doubt winter will take a few animals, such is the way of life, one can only hope that spring and summer is good to those animals remaining.