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b—Port » f o r d New«, Thursday, Ju ly 6, 19o7 walked back along the windfall to the ground, then continued hia • talk around the h ill. The sly blacktall remained In hiding directly underfoot throughout the episode. Several years ago the w rlte t was hunting In the same gen- eral area of the Tillamook burn and was working slowly through a patch of chest-high bracken when directly ahead a move ment was noted In the high fern. The animal moved away about 15 feet and stopped. Surely, it had to be a deer. Three times we worked al most within touching distance before the animal would again sneak off through the bracken. Not once did it show Itself. Finally, we dropped on all fours and began to crawl fo r- ward under the canopy of fronds, peering ahead through the ta ll stems. Suddenly, the big ears and saucer eyes of a blacktall doe appeared In the gloom a few feet ahead. She was hunched down, watching me as I craw l ed forward, her face almost on a level with mine. We stared at each other fo r a moment eye to eye; then she turned and melted Into the heavy growth. What I am leading up to Is the fact that many, many black- tailed deer—pe rh a p s hund reds—are actually by-passed by hunteis foi every one that they see. Proof of this fact Is aptly born out by a deer hunt several years ago which was monitored closely by Game Commtsslcw personnel. This blacktailed deer hunt took place within the Cedar Creek deer enclosure where a known number of animals was present. located in the T illa mook barn just off the W il son Hlver highway, the en closure Is actually a long term study area to determine mam facets In the blacktall’ s life Including range and ca rry ing capacities. Vegetative con ditions and terrain Inside are lip lc a l of the entire country side. The fenced area covers 3-10 acres, roughly one-half square mile, which certainly doesn’ t cover much te rrito ry as far as the hunter Is concerned. To most hunters it would seem ridiculous to confine oneself to a mere one-half square mile hunting spot. Nevertheless, It was a known TAKE WAS SMAl.l Fifty eager hunters, some of them profecsed experts, work ed the Cedar Creek enclosure during the course of the 22- ■l.n season, lig h t n| r combed the brushy half-sec tion opening day, the most hunters present at any one time. Yet, the total take of deer from Uils small areas was three blacktall deer, all taken during the firs t few hours opening morning. Comments fr o m visiting hunters during the season were conflicting to say the least. Many were profoundly con vinced that there wasn’t a single deer In the entire urea. Some thought a few might lie present, but based their opinions on tracks rather than deer ob served. Several hunters saw deer but fatted to get off a shot. Equally astounding was the (.«• e that, although antlerless animals could be taken by W il son Unit permit holders during the last nine days of the sea son, not n single antlerless deer was taken from the study area. Indeed, the Oregon blacktall la a smart, tough little cust omer, but a finei hallenge, nev- ertheless, well worth pursuing. And, If you should decide to hunt him, we advise you to prepare youraelf before hand to expect and accept hum ili ating defeat. Keep well In mind that the blacktall makes few mistakes. Moat likely he w ill frustrate yom most vigorous efforts, lie w ill thwart your most skillful maneuver. He w ill circumvent your leet-p!anned stratagem. Amt If, by good fortune, you should chance to score, yoursn t>e happy in the knowledge that you outwitted a crafty, cunning adversary. :____ I srAMt*» fact that at least 47 deer were Inside the deer-proof fence, which approximates a popula tion density of 94 deer per square m ile of range. Now, that’ s a lot of deer In any hunter’ s language, and It would appear that a k ill could be made relatively easy. A few hunters thought the situation was al most like having one tied up. Vet the results of this hunt are astounding, and vividly I l lustrate the blacktall’s prow ess and mastery over Intrud ing hunters. „ W P ■ TOP TOP TOT TOP 0P TOP \ T O P , «JW K VALUE vai " g VAILE ,T vaihe VAIHE VAIHE VAIHE -. - -,7 c ;c -tsso - slAMl^ osmi TOP TOP V ® ; top , TOP TOP VAIHE VAIHE vaihe VAIHE »> » m i - si AMP» f vaihe 1 ’ U n ii u M .r7o MH ,7 « À ?rV Mark O H .H i.l d . K . . p O r , , . » G , . . n W” k P'«'— «' PORK CHOPS f ~ p l .q u . hl, ,n d f . « . .f f.,„ „ f ,„ e , . w(lll. ..... . M Go> ernor and Honorary Chairman o f I h . Keep O regon Groan A „o <ia fio n TP. pra ca n l.lio n made in h i, office a« W e llin g to n D C by C A Gillott ................t J C •»‘ C '.H and f o i . , , . 1 Of , b . Amer tree f’ . r . a , S ,o d„ " , Industrie» and Edward P C liff. Chief, 0 SUMMER STEELHEAD EGG-TAKE COMPLETE The summer steelhead egg- take at Game Commission fish hatcheries was completed re cently with well over 1,300,000 eggs now in the hatching trays fo r the coming year’s produc tion. This brings the combined total of both summer and win ter steelhead eggs to well over 3,900,000 now under incu bation at Commission hatch eries. Or.e of the most difficult fish to hold successfully, the adult summer steelhead were trap- ped almost a year ago on sev- $. Foraat Service eral stream systems, then held In keep holding jxx>ls at the hatcheries until they matured beginning early this spring. The fish matured over a period of almost three months, with the last eggs taken the early part of June. The winter steelhead egg- take was completed almost a month ago with „ total egg-take of more than 2,600,000. This included 900,000 winter steel head eggs obtained from the Fish Commission’ s Big Creek Hatchery. IN LITTLE LEAGUE SCHEDULE July 10—Yankees vs Dodgers, Wayne E. Robinson, 42, of Langlois. Sparks, Nevada, nephew of Mrs. July 11—Dodgers vs Braves, Ro W illia m M cLellan, Port Ctford, tary; Yankees vs Giants, Lang died Monday June 26, in a Reno lois. hospital. July 13—Giants vs Braves, Ro A native of Port Orford, he re tary; Yankees vs Dodgers, Lang tired from the U. S. A ir Force in lois. 1962 while stationed at Stead July 18—Dodgers vs Giants, Ro AFB, and stayed on to reside in tary; Yankees vs Braves, Lang the Sparks area. lois. He worked for die Washoe July 19—Braves vs Dodgers, Ro County Parks Department as an tary. a g e n t in th e Neighborhood J u ly 20—Gianis vsYankees, Ro Youth Corps program. tary. Mr. Robinson was a member July 24—Braves vs Giants, Ro of the Oddfellows Lodge No. 33, tary. o f Wadsworth, and was wagon July 25—Dodgers vs Yankees, m a s te r of the Trailer C!ub, Rotary. Queen Esther Rebecca Lodge. J u ly26—Giants vs Dodgers, Ro Surviving are his wife, Amy, tary. of Sparks; children, Terry and July 27—Braves vs Yankees, Ro Sandra, of Warden, Wash., sisters, tary. Mae Kock of Florence, Ore., and August 1—Dodgers vs B ra v e s , Pearl Hurst, Oregon; and a broth Rotary; Yankees vs Giants, Lang er, John Stewart of Susanville. lois. C alif. August 2—Giants vs Braves, Ro Funeral services w e re con tary. ducted at 2 p. m. Thursday in August 3—Dodgers vs Yankees, the Pyramid Mortuary. Burial Rotary. was in the Mountain View Cem AU games start at 6 p. m. etery. MEMORIAL growers, tree farm ers and shrub and flower nurseries. FRUSTRATED HUNTERS Someone once said that the The saddest tales of woe whitetailed deer is the sm art about this will-O -the-w tsp are est c ritte r on four legs, and recounted by a multitude of the most difficult big game frustrated hunters who provide animal to hunt. vivid and colorful testimony Now, whoever made this of the blacktails’ prowess, vaunted statement has never stealth and cunning. Mostly, he hunted the Oregon blacktail. w ill leave the hunter in com We w ill challenge such a claim plete bafflement as to his any time, and I ’m sure nim whereabouts. Many nimrods rods who have tackled both stoutly proclaim that he runs animals w ill readily join in my by night and crawls into a hole protest. For the skulking black by day. tailed deer is no patsy by any Last season, this w rite r standards. Indeed, he’s a crea hunted opening weekend in the ture that w ill make mockery of “ wide open” Trask River coun the best efforts of the best try in the old Tillamook burn. hunters. Following the early morning The blacktail is a living sym surprise by a mass of hunt bol of sneakery, cunning and ers, the blacktails took to dense deception. He’ s not a runner cover and were seen no more, such as the mule or whitetail, except fo r an occasional ani nor w ill he be caught out in mal that had to be stepped on the open often except fo r before it would move. fleeting moments. Rather, he About mid-morning a shot has learned to outwit the hunt rang out some 300 yards dis er in close quarters, using the tance around the point of a h ill brushy Jungles as his field of across an Intervening draw. battle. Moments later a three-point Hunters unfamiliar with the buck sneaked rapidly around the blacktail’s habits w ill swear slope, its belly almost touching there Isn’t s deer within miles. the ground. He slipped through Even the experts sometimes the vine maple, huckleberry and express sim ila r opinions fo l bracken with amazing speed un lowing frustrating days afield t il he came abreast of a huge without a single sight of their snag windfall which lay al quarry. most parallel to the h ill Yet the blacktail is found In side. The massive semi-burned abundance throughout Western Douglas f i r extended slightly Oregon from the Cascade out and away from the slope mountains westward to the Pa of the h ill with the term inal c ific . He’s as much at home at end hanging over some eight high elevations as he is in feet above the ground. the backyards of city dwell The blacktail buck looked the ers. He w ill brazenly come situation over fo r a moment, out at nightfall to nibble in glanced back in the direction die flower beds of homeown he had come, then crawled back ers. He wanders at w ill over underneath the log and hid him field and meadow throughout self among the tangle of brush the countryside. It is not un and bracken. usual for bands of 30 or more About the same time a hunt to prune a young orchard by er rounded the h ill in hot pur night—or perhaps a cane- suit of his elusive target. He berry patch--and sneak back walked swiftly along a deer Into hiding by daybreak. tra il until he too came to the Thecagy 11 file blacktall leads windfall. Jumping up on the log a happy but secretive life In he walked out Its length until the alpine meadows of the high he was well above the brush country as well as within a line. Here he squatted five min stone’s throw of suburbia. Often utes or so scanning, searching he is observed strolling uncon the hillside fo r a glimpse of cerned along the streets of the buck deer he knew couldn’ t towns and hamlets. Hebecomes be fa r off. Finally In apparent a pest to gardners, strawberry disgust, the hunter gave up. 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