Show j 1 4 DOE AND ON It DEER pEE l m TO E t w Ie J h j It N Il t t The doe d e a and id season post 6 kill of deer de r lot fot the for Cor will be bet deter deter- determined mined b y t board t of ot I big big i t game gams control at t Heber as uthe the 01 o representatives of th the 7 A Nation forest state tate fish and game department Uintah count ud the Vernal Vernah Gun and Rin Rifle club to reach leach an IU agree ap menu ment Oft dil rI ti Y t k kp Sr p Fred Reynolds Uintah U coun- coun tY game ClUne warden nd BatT Sprouse Duehesne Duchesne COunty wasp war warden den recommended a kill of does doe during the regular regular season Reason in the Greendale area area- and GOO COO of either sex sex ae in Browns Park This Is it an increase of too over last years special hunt bunt when 11 li- li were b A f A censes ceases Were were lor a does in Greendale and OO of either sex in la Browns Drowns Park Park Crux Of the argument ed ad around the Dumber killed In 1946 1046 6 during the regular hunt Supervisor Ona A A Hart Harrison on of the Ashley forest maintained that a minimum kill oNS of 1000 would be required to save ve the th forage ferage and that inasmuch as at forest service figures figure dispose that only 1400 head were were killed during durin the regulars regular a 11 hunt hun last year yeu the the extra kill recommended mended by the game 1 S officials i- i It i a total k of Only nl 2200 this thin J w rf l Ol countered NW with the tithe t assertion Ion that in his opinion the regular kill km last year was wa 2000 and the extra this season would make a total of 2800 Harrison opened the tile meeting with the that the deer are increasing rapidly The win win- winter ter range ranee he declared is Js over over- overgrazed overgrazed grazed and the deer are now en en- Continued on pat PIP page four lour DOE AND POST SEASON HUNTI DEER HUNT I SET FOR JULY th I Continued from page 1 on the summer range I and as a result 50 percent of th the current growth of 0 the browse brows brownis is being lost He pointed ou out that cattle use of the forest ha has been reduced 25 percent am an and sheep use 30 percent during thi th the past few years and that th the Forest Service feels it only Jus that made 1 e ea a 1 in 3 5 it- it the percent r deer J JU JJ U h herd reduction J u over J bi bl v- v normal increase He said tha that the airplane census made this thi spring disclosed a total deer population of and tha Ua that the increase in the herd this year wil wU total 2500 The forest fore service he continued request requests that this increase of 2500 plus 5 percent of of the present here herd size or a total of head be bt betaken betaken taken Although a total kill kUl ol to of only is requested he con con- concluded eluded the range actually actually needs need a a S kill kiU of Uintah county stockmen said Rulon S Hacking president oi of the as as- a are not adverse to the range ange carrying the number oi of leer jeer which ft it will support in it injunction conjunctIon with livestock with with- cut sut ut damage to the forage He said laid that he agreed with Harri Harri- Harrison ion son relative to the condition of oi he the brush and grass and that he relieved believed from personal observe observe- observation ion tion that forest service game figures are correct and that the till kill recommended by the for for- forst est st service should be made If ti forage orage orage is to be maintained and livestock and deer continue to graze craze raze without Injury to the User Cither Don Jensen e president of the Mn 1 Ve ernal l Gun and Rifle Club I as- as that sportsmen do not wish vials to hurt the livestock in- in industry However he continued he ic to did not believe that range conditions are as bad as depict- depict depicted ed id d by the forest service He stat stat- ed id d that cattle are not eating grass Pass as this time but are con- con brush which is deer food sod Alsor Also he continued deer are not of entirely to blame for brush and nd forage depletion as the country has experienced conk coty drought during the past last eat few years and although the browse rowse and forage decreased last ast year it is in his opinion showing howing an improvement this 11 year ear TI- TI He also 1 claimed A that many Wyoming and Colorado deer inter er of Utah irta in the ean and northeastern ort that sih there e cor- cor corer C corer are rr I not ot of as many Utah animals in that lat hat vicinity as game census census figures gures disclose The sportsmen he e concluded are unwilling to agree gree to a larger extra kill than 00 until further surveys are made Lade jade as they do not believe that sufficiently efficiently accurate surveys have ave been made in the past to an unduly large kill at athis this his time Warden Sprouse declared that the be he recommended kill made by local forest officials is in his pinion opinion the largest made yet In 1 any part of the state Not even yen ven on the Manti ManU and Fishlake forests crests which are admittedly Uy the lie to worst in the state he concluded ded ed is as heavy a percentage of kill ill requested as is Js recommend recommend- ed d d here |