Big game hunting outlook for 2020. Upper Snake Region Forecast Whitetail Deer There’s a bit of irony in terms of Idaho’s whitetail searching. It’s been so beneficial to so long that good is now typical. When you look straight right right back since 2004 when Idaho’s deer harvest data had been segregated between whitetails and mule deer, whitetails had been an inferior part of the statewide deer harvest with mule deer being nearly all deer taken by hunters. But through the years, that proportion has shifted and whitetails now represent almost 1 / 2 of the statewide harvest that is deer despite 90 per ...