Show PLENTY OF GAr GAME E EIN IN U OS Ss FORESTS Deer Supply Increases Predatory Predator Animals Make l Killings Deer are aro Increasing in In num num- numbers numbers bers in the tho national forests jot Utah since the Institution of o th the buck law and day 10 open sea sea- season sea season son an analysis of o the tho game census of the forests show De- De Despite De Despite spite the tho rumors to the effect that there are arc many barren does due duoto to the killing of the bucks there has hIlS been a satisfactory Increase In numbers District Forester RH R H Rutledge points out He lie com com- comments comments comments ments It Is probable that some someday someday someday day It will be necessary to have havo nn an open season on does to pre pre- prevent pre prevent vent ent overstocking The destructive presence of predatory animals In the national forests of Utah Idaho and Ne- Ne Nevada Nevada Ne Nevada vada vadas Is s shown In the reports avail avail- available available able here Southern Idaho na- na national na national forests have been dealt with the most severely There were 78 mountain sheep 29 mountain goats oats 82 antelope 2013 deer and 11 elk killed in that district dur- dur durIng during dur during ing 1926 One thousand three hundred deer were killed by these animals in Utah Nevada suffered the loss of ot five mountain sheep I five antelope and 52 deer by pred pred- predatory predatory predatory atory animals The forests In southern Idaho netted the tho hunters hunter the greatest number of game as they did the predatory animals One hundred and four fifty bears were killed there In la 1926 and leer deer elk and mountain goats Two thousand deer and ten elk were bagged by hunters In Utah duro dur- during dur during ing the tho season Only deer were killed In III Nevada The game gamo census for the year on the Utah national forests lists deer 1715 elk moun moun- mountain mountain tain sheep and 15 16 antelope The antelope are all In the tho La Sal national forest Idaho's Idabo's game census records deer 2434 elk 2331 bears 1746 1745 antelope 1166 mountain sheep 1308 moun moun- mountain mountain tain goats and moose Ne ze Nevada Ne- Ne Nevada vada has deer elk and antelope |