Show Weather Retarding Range Rehabilitation snow and cold temperatures have teamed up to stall Wildlife Resources efforts to rehabilitate deer winter ORIGINAL plans were to chain and reseed acres of Division controlled lands last but only acres have been according to Lands Development Superintendent Don Christensen are now waiting for a January or February otherwise work will not be completed until next CONTRACTORS at the Birdseye rehabilitation site in Utah County took from October 16 to November 16 to complete Normally they can chain 50 acres per The other rehabilitation areas are near Mona and Range rehabilitation includes chaining out pinion and juniper trees using an anchor chain pulled by crawler This reduces competition between the trees and useful deer food It is followed by aerial broadcasting of THE AREA is then chained a second the opposite to cover the seeds and finish uprooting Some trees are then pushed into washes and gullies to act as plugs and prevent Seventeen seed species were used on the aerial mix at The mixture included 6 9 forbs and 2 browse Ten browse species will be hand broadcast later when weather conditions Total expenditure for this area was over RANGE rehabilitation work must be completed by late February because most browse seeds require cold and wet weather to |