Show P fJ o S Sp i P t. t 0 r t 5 Mirror By By JOHN MOONEY MOONEY- T Telegram ele r m Sports s Editor When a a. plant gets out of place Its It's a weed but when a a. deer gets get out of place its it's a damn nuisance Thus Mark Anderson Utah fish and game commissioner voiced his opinion of the deer situation which Is driving the fish and game commission com corn mission and the east bench land and orchard plot owner slightly gaga Saga We talked to Commissioner Anderson Tuesday prior to visiting visiting vis vis- vis- vis lUng one of the feeding I rots lots ts on the east bench south of Parleys Parley's can canyon o J. J While this year car the deer doer problem problem lem seems to be the worst in recent winters Anderson said there is nothing new in it There are definite causes for this trouble trouble trou trou- ble and I F believe a definite remedy for it The Buck law of 1913 started It all off At that the deer herd in the state had been hunted practically to extinction so somethIng something some some- somethIng thing had to be done Consequently for a long time only buck deer were allowed hunted Within the last few years we have had to open certain localities to the hunting of doe or hornless deer as a weeding-out weeding measure but that hasn't kept the herds under c control The seco second reason son for this o of deer In many lo localities lo- lo lies In the overprotect overprotect- tion of deer deer through concentrated ed cd drives on predatory animals co coyotes otes and cougars Something like is spent in the state controlling predatory marauders and I dont don't think we should increase this allotment In fact so many natural enemies ene- ene roles mies of the deer have been killed off that nature has been thrown out of bal balance nce Dont Don't get me wrong Im I'm not advocating the natural cy cycle le for conservation control control control con con- that some educators advocate because it isn't practical Whenever the human element enters the picture the natural cycle is thrown out of kilter However However However How How- ever I believe with educated and trained men handling the program we can keep the deer under con con- We can can ean remove all the deer deerWe deerwe deerve we ve need to by systematic and controlled hunting Anderson continued but in some places the general public wouldn't stomach our suggestions I mean deer could be controlled controlled controlled con con- trolled by allowing the hunters in the crowded areas to take one deer either buck or hornless hornless hornless horn horn- less on on the regular permit Under this this system the the first year hunters would come back backwith backwith backwith with a 3 1 margin of bucks over doe since most hunters prefer the bucks In Idaho where there is no buck law between and out of hunters will get their deer while with the buck law only about would be so fortunate I think part of our difficulty could be solved d by removing the buck law in some areas but of course course our whole game management management manage manage- ment bent needs flexibility to provide for individual matters Our commission can an do anything anything any any- thing it chooses in the interest of wildlife and it just might be possible possible possible pos pos- sible that the buck law would be repealed in some places in the state The state stat commission boys have been making a concentrated ed study of the deer habits now v for many years ears and are now busily engaged in tagging deer leer near Logan Fillmore and in Bo Box ox Elder Eider count county These tagged animals animals ani ani- ani- ani mals nials are released eased and checked when shot to plot the migratory habits of the herds I Several hundred deer are be beIng beIng be- be ing fed daily dally on the east bench but this at best is only a temporary temporary tem tern measure Eighty tons long of hay have been done away with alread already but Commissioner Anderson An Are- derson believes the deer that stay in the mountains even though hungrier are in better condition in the spring sprin than the pampered and amI hand fed deer There are several l reasons for condemning the feed lots for deer Anderson said In the first place the native browse Is all e eaten ten up pronto at the feed lots 2 2 public invades feed lots disturbing deer and running off the little remaining remain- remain log ing 1 fat t 3 this frightens the deer off the feed lots causing them to overrun farm haystacks and orchards orchards or or- and 4 the deer get domesticated do do- and forget much of their natural caution thereby getting getting get get- ting out on the highways and getting mixed up in all kinds of messes Incidentally if the motorists would just be content to watch the deer from a distance it wouldn't be be so bad but people just have to be right in the feeding area to be satisfied and this bothers the deer too Anderson didn't say it In so many words but one gathered that he ne rated some of these curious humans in about the same category category cate cate- gory as the weed and the out-of- out place deer |