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Show Good Luck Is Had By Deer Hunters According to reports of Rangers H. M. Christensen and Milo T. Dyches, deer hunting on the Beaver Bea-ver and Glenwood mountain districts dis-tricts of the Fish Lake national forest during the recent hunting season proved very successful. On the Beaver district there j were 2358 hunters and 1533 buck j deer were killed and removed. On j this district Grazing Inspector 0. : A. Olsen and Ranger Christensen made stomach analyses of five buck deer which were legally taken by hunters and found that deer were eating from 85 to 95 per cent of fallen aspen leaves, 2 to 5 j per cent of Oregon grape, 1 to 3 per cent Douglas fir needles, and j approximately 5 per cent lupine. Mr. Olsen reports that on the areas where the stomachs were j taken the following plants were available: Fallen aspen leaves,! Oregon grape, mountain mahog- any, lupine, Douglas fir, sage-! brush, purshia, numerous grasses and mansanita. The mountain ma- ' hogany was generally hio-hlined and purshia was closely hedged, j On the Glenwood mountain dis-' trict there were 863 hunters and 478 hunters were successful. The j largest buck killed was checked at. the Koosharem checking station i and weighed 219 pounds. It had a ' 23 inches spread of antlers. The: smallest buck killed was checked at the Monroe canyon station and weighed 64 pounds. This deer had an antler spread of 7 inches and the length of the antlers was 8 inches. A doe with hems 18 inches in length was killed on the Glenwood mountain district. It is a rare case to find a doe deer with horns. |