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Show GAME INCREASE SEENIN STATE Utah big game have shown a tremendous increase and there are nearly 10 times the number of hunters now as there were 15 years ago. Hunting and fishing have increased in-creased in proportion tc .the supply. Records indicated that in 1925 there were 18,500 deer m Utah s national forests. Today the deer population exceeds 138,000. As the herds of big game increased, in-creased, so did the number of hunters. hunt-ers. For example, 5,657 deer hunters hunt-ers were recorded in 1925 In. Ml, there were 43,000 successful hunt- eIThere are several reasons for the increases. The foremost is big game management -that is, controlling the number of deer or elk taken during a season and controlling the area from which they are Second, about half of the does have twins, many counts showing almost as many fawn as does. Predators which kill sheep also kill deer. With a long-range program pro-gram of predatory control, the enemies of deer are eliminated at the same time the enemies of the sheep are killed. Control of predatory preda-tory animals is probably operating operat-ing to increase the deer more than the buck law. Thus it is that the deer have become be-come their own natural enemies. By over - population, they have crowded ranges and have caused a shortage of winter feed in many places. |