Show foresters count deer in one herd near beaver I 1 on february 17 ranger H it christensen Christens cn and lew harris of beaver rode horseback over the winter range about six miles south of beaver and counted 1156 deer during the days ride ranger christensen states that these deer were counted onan area not to exceed one mile in width and two miles in length and he estimates that not more than two thirds of the deer on this area were counted christensen Ghrist ensen and harris counted head of deer in one herd so far as is known this is the largest number of deer in one herd that has ever been counted on the fish lake forest grazing inspector 0 A olsen and orval winkler of the ogden office together with the local rangers on the fishlike fishlake Fish lake forest spent several days during the first of this month in classifying deer on the beaver monroe glenwood and watts mountain grass creek districts on some areas where deer are con jested considerable damage to the forage is being caused and as a result of the long cold winter and scarcity of feed quite a number of fawns and does are rather poor and weak however up to the present time the losses have been very light several buck deer were seen that had shed one horn this is rather unusual because buck deer generally shed both horris horns practically at the same time mr olsen had with him a motion picture machine and was able to get some exceptionally fine pictures of some of the deer herds and winter range conditions on the fishlike fishlake FIsh lake forest during the latter part of march the rangers on the fishlake fishlike Fish lake forest will make a survey of snow on the various snow courses that have been established these surveys and snow measurements are made each year in cooperation with the utah state agricultural college |