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22 Wednesday, February 4, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon BASKETBALL: Outlaws fell in a tough loss to Sutherlin Continued from page 5 Tales from a Sisters Naturalist by Jim Anderson Don’t eat this guy! One of the most inter- esting parts of being a big mouth in the local natural- ist business are the emails I wake up to each morn- ing. The photo at right — from a guy in Sisters who says, “I guess the name was appropriate when I was fly- ing a rescue chopper out of Saigon” — was included in an email the other day. When I opened it, I thought: “Holy Cats, ODFW’s ear-tagging mule deer just like wildlife biolo- gist Paul Bond was doing back in the ’50s when he was conducting a migra- tory deer study — only he put bells around their necks attached to a big numbered collar. With that image in mind, I contacted ODFW wildlife biologist Corey Heath at the Bend Office to see what’s going on. T h i s w a s C o r e y ’s response: “(Wildlife biolo- gist) Randy Lewis treated that particular buck, how- ever, we dart and handle numerous deer — dealing with similar difficulties, such as tangled in Christmas lights, clothes lines, etc. — every year. In addition, we typically dart from two to five deer per year and oper- ate to remove arrows from them. “I darted and operated on a deer this winter that had two different broad- head arrows in it! The sur- gery took about 2 hours and the deer is doing great — we’ve seen it several times photo by Wild bill a mule deer tagged by odFW. tagged deer provide lots of information to wildlife officials. subsequent to the surgery, (it’s) also ear-tagged. “Our success/survival rates of deer we dart is very high; 95+ percent. The only ones that don’t survive are ones that have such serious injuries (i.e. broken jaws or similar) that it would be inhumane to release them. “We do have a data sheet for deer #40; it shows, other than what I’ve told you pre- viously, health monitoring info (temp, respirations, pulse) and drugs used.” This is very much like what I do with rehabbed birds: band them with a USGS band, hoping that if something happens to the bird and it’s found again — dead or alive — the rehab- ber will know more about the fate of the species he or she is working with. The ear tag also denotes the animal had been treated with drugs. When it is first darted, drugs are used to bring it back to conscious- ness and other drugs may be used to treat wounds, etc. However, Heath notes that “the ‘drug notification’ applies only to the drug withdrawal period, which is (usually) 15-45 days — depending on drugs used — after that time the deer are perfectly fine to eat. Most of We’re Flexible! these deer live several more years, so I guess I wouldn’t make (a) statement about not shooting them. Note: We have had a few of these deer/bear taken by hunters in subsequent years, how- ever I’ve never had one taken during the drug with- drawal period.” I will end this little epis- tle with a suggestion that if you’re a hunter, please pass up any tagged or marked mule deer, bear, bobcat, elk or other wildlife you can shoot legally. Instead, let ODFW know you observed it or them when, where and how. That kind of informa- tion will go into a database that will eventually provide wildlife biologists with a little more information that may fit into some other facet of activity that will eventu- ally provide that “Ah-ha!” moment. DROP-IN PUBLIC YOGA CLASSES 7 DAYS A WEEK! The Outlaws were down by 13 as they headed into the fourth quarter and con- tinued to play catch-up. 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