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Show Request Hunters To Turn In Heads Of Tagged Deer Hunters are requested to turn in heads of all tagged deer that they kill this coming deer season. Tagged heads may be turned in at the Oak City deer checking station sta-tion or taken to Eb Stapley, game warden. The Utah State Fish and Game Department, Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service have tagged a total of 214 young fawns in the Oak Creek-Dry Creek unit during the past five summers. Some of these tagged fawns die of various causes within the first month or two following birth (only one has been found). Others are killed by hunters during their first hunting season, whereas others sue cumb during their first winter. Probably not many more than half of the 214 fawns originally tagged are now living. There have been returns on about 25 of them. About five of this number were 2-year oldswhen killed by hunters. About 10 were yearlings and rest were fawns, which died their first winter, were killed by hunters, or died shortly after birth. The greatest migration of Sny was a yearling buck tagged in 1949 in the head of South Walker and killed in Chaulk Creek, east of Fillmore, during the 1950 hunt. This was an airline distance of 32 miles. Nearly all the returns, however, have been from the Oak Creek-Dry Creek area. Those making the study stu-dy are particularly anxious to secure sec-ure the heads of tagged deer, for with a good series of known-age deer skulls, they will be able to age untagged deer which are killed kil-led by the hunters. |