Show Deer Check Stations Important Deer checking stations are valuable tools in managing Utah's most sought after big game Information gathered at the along with other biological data collected throughout the enables biologists to determine hunter success trends on a long term IS important that biologists collect the data the same way each said Homer Division of Wildlife Resources assistant game management Information collected includes the number of number of deer and ratio of does and and success achieved per hunter law enforcement officers watch for They check hunters' make certain tags are attached to make certain proper sex is check for loaded firearms in Utah's two busiest deer checking stations each showed a 52 percent decline in numbers of deer harvested this year compared to according to Homer OFFICERS at the Bloomington Station in southern Utah checked hunters during the first three days of the hunt with This compares to hunters with deer in the same period in The Bloomington which replaced the Santa Clara station after the new interstate highway was measures the take of deer by THE OTHER major station at Daniels Canyon near Heber City measures resident deer-success in northeastern This year biologists there reported hunters with deer during the first three days of the This compares to hunters with deer the first three days of the 1973 noted there is a buck only sportsmen can expect a two-thirds drop in harvest from either sex hunting THE DIVISION earlier had predicted buck only hunting this year would result in the lowest hunter success in several Nonresident hunters were in fewer numbers this according to the Division's accounting as not all of the licenses available were |