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Show 48 Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters ent range compatible with its carrying capacity and also in har mony with other land uses. . To develop better relationship between sportsmen and livestock raiser by acquiring basic information on numbers of animals, carrying capacity of the range for each group, and eco nomic values involved in changing present ratios. (3) Comments: State and federal agencies have done some re search on deer as well as making preliminary habitat studies. Interest in big game ranks next to fishing, if not more im portant, in the eyes of organized sportsmen of the state. Hence, differences of opinion sometimes lead to acrimonious argument. Therefore, it is very important that the true relationship of big Not until this qame game to the range is properly understood. known can is problems be qame-lrvestock range relationship solved to the satisfaction of all concerned. The proper management of deer and elk depends upon four steps, namely: Determine the carrying capacity of the winter range or 1. the summer range, whichever one has the lesser carrying capacity with reference to the other. This is not obtained by a mere ocu lar estimate, but by a careful and detailed range reconnaissance by approved methods. This procedure is now being done by the U. S. Forest Service and the U. S. Grazing Service with reference to livestock; hence, it can be done for deer and other game unqu lates. Count the deer after hunting season, and also obtain the The latter value is an index to the sex ratio and doe-jeum ratio. In addition to the past season. females the of during fertility the value between numbers in sexes, balance indicating the proper of sex ratio is used in one method of counting deer. Two reliable methods of counting deer have been used in the state, and another trends is method of satisfactory in a majority of 2. obtaining highly cases. of 3. By means of the hunting season adjust the populationthe deer in terms of the carrying capacity of the range. Actually allow a safety population should be slightly lower in order to calls for removal of antlerless ,this margin. Naturally adjustment deer. removal Keep the herd population stabilized by an annual equivalent to the net annual increase. The hunting regulation of is to allow the normal take of bucks plus a designated number 4. Studies on proportional removal of the herd on antlerless deer. the Wasatch Game Preserve by the Wildlife Research Unit showed that the average annual removal was approximately 20 per cent for an apparently stabilized population. Educational movies on natural history and management of |
