[birdman]

Bus,
I'm not familiar with what numbers New Mexico provides in their harvest survey, but if you give me some idea, I can help translate for you. Colorado provides hunting data such as number applicants for all seasons, number tags given out. These two numbers tell you odds of being drawn out. In general, the fewer the tags, the better likliehood of harvesting a trophy bull. They also provide the number of animals harvested (bull vs. cow) in every season. This provides you hunter success rate and relatively indicates overall heard size. The most important part is to see how many elk were killed in a specific unit throughout the season. If success rate remains high throughout all seasons, you can almost bet that area is their wintering ground or at least a migration corridor.