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Show Deer Range Study In Eleventh Year i . . ... reimbursed 7o',; of the money mon-ey spent on the project. Completion date for inventorying inven-torying all of the (2 deer herd units is 1972, fourteen years after the first work began. be-gan. I Winter months are spent ob-'fwrving ob-'fwrving deer to establish the upper limits of the winter range and working on the Federal Aid report which must be written annually. Big game range inventory studies conducted by the Utah Division of Fish and Game primarily to establish deer winter range limits is now in its eleventh year, according accord-ing to Floyd Coles, project leader. I Jordan Pederson, game biologist, bio-logist, is working with the project leader, and they have a crew of 9 summer employees em-ployees assisting with the field work. Objectives of the program are to establish winter range limits for all of the state's deer herd units, provide a description of total available winter range on state, federal and private lands, and to inventory in-ventory the types and a-mounts a-mounts of forage available to J deer in winter months. Coles and Pederson also plot land ownership and major ma-jor vegetation types on maps for each herd unit, and com-binerange com-binerange information with migration patterns of deer on each herd unit. The range inventory project is a Federal Aid Program; the Division of Fish and Game is |