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Show - I- : . I PROPOSED PROJECT. A deer overpass structure similar to this will be constructed above north and south bound lanes of 1-15 through Beaver Ridge. Underpass will look similar, only difference being that traffic will be on top and deer underneath. Deer under passes pi anned on Beaver Ridge sed on to district conservation officers or even a note mailed to the Wildlife Resources Office Of-fice ln Cedar City would Ibe greatly appreciated. WES SHIELDS Conservation Officer Highway traffic and deer are &s comipatilble as cats and dogs. Where highways transect tran-sect areas occupied by deer, frequent vehicle-deer colli sions occur. But, unlike a triv-lal triv-lal scrap between Felix and Rover, auto-deer mishaps are much (more serious, robbing us of an Important recreational recreation-al resource, causing considerable consider-able property damage, and most Important, injuring or i Data, as a result of monitor- (rug and sighting marked deer, proves Important in such ways -as indicating where pass structures will Ibe located along the highway, the geographic geo-graphic boundaries of winter range, and the range use west of highway 91. It also helps determine deer migration migra-tion routes, along with factors influencing migration. To collect substantial data, we woull like to Invite the public's participation when marked animals are sighted. Jot down on a scrap of paper the date, specific location of sighting, the color of the deers collar, and if possible, the number on the collar. Such Information can ibe pas- . even killing passengers of vehicles. ve-hicles. Aiming for several objectives, object-ives, a project at Beaver Ridge, Ri-dge, south of Beaver, hopefully will provide a suitable means to end the unfortunate waste on our highways asd still permit per-mit deer to get to their histori-cal histori-cal winter range west of the highway. The study is being conducted conduct-ed by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources in cooperation coopera-tion with the Utah Department of Highways. Its purpose Is aimed at facilitating deer movements across the proposed propos-ed stretch of 1-15 during critical criti-cal deer migration and "use" periods. To accomplish this, the 5 mile stretch of new highway will !he fenced "deer tight" According to Don Beale, project pro-ject biologist, two pillar type underpasses and one overpass spanning a cut through natural nat-ural terrain will be incorporat. ed into the freeway design; thus, a means for deer to cross without going In to the highway. high-way. To aid deer In finding these pass (structures, right-of-way fencing will he constructed to funnel animals to vantage points. It Is hoped that deer migration and utilization of the range will continue as normal insplte of restricted movements. To date many hours of effort ef-fort have igone into the project pro-ject in preparation to collect data. One hundred ad ninety five deer have been live trapped trap-ped and marked with neck collars of red, white, yellow or blue, depending upon the locale lo-cale where trapped. Also, some deer are carrying radio trans-mitters, trans-mitters, (which enalble biologists biolo-gists to monitor deer move-ments move-ments and thus serve to delineate de-lineate (boundaries of summer and winter range. Approximately Approxi-mately 18 deer will lbe fitted with radio transmitters this winter. Tuture plans are to "c o 1 lar-mark" and ear-tag deer during the 1973-74 winter as well. |