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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.
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The Outlaws were down
by 13 as they headed into
the fourth quarter and con-
tinued to play catch-up. The
Bulldogs started to play keep-
away early, took time off the
clock, and held on to beat the
Outlaws by eight.
“It was a disappointing
game that we would like
back,” said Runco. “This was
a game where we had to play
at a high level at both ends of
the court, and we did not.”
Sisters struggled on
photo by Jerry baldoCk
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The league standings are
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Sisters 4-1, Junction City
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