Sandy Post Thursday, April 18, 1963 (Sec. 2)
'Sho w-Me Trip Gives Sportsmen First-Hand Look at Deer Herds
It was cold and blustery.
Stickey mud hampered move
ment of around 200 sportsmen
who attended the game com
mission's "show • me” trip
to the Silver Lake big game
winter range in Lake county
April 6 and 7.
The primary purpose of the
trip was to get a firsthand
look at this important winter
ing area of the mulies as well
as to learn a little about the
animals themselves in relation
to their environment.
Despite the adverse weather
the group did manage to visit
three important key sites on the
range. Weather itself preclud
ed the sighting of many deer
but various sportsmen report
ed observing anywhere from 20
to more than lOo animals.
This in itself was surprising
since rain and snow squall
put most animals into the shel
ter of the juniper thickets. As
one sportsman put it, "The deei
aren't dumb and only knot
heads like human beings would
be out in such miserable wea
ther.'
Study Under Way
On this range the game com
mission is conducting a ma
jor research study aimed at
filling the gaps in the knowl
edge about mule deer and their
proper
management.
The
project began in 1958
During the trip, sportsmen
learned how actual deer counts
are made, how winter mort
ality is determined, deer mi
grations. the effect of hunting
on a deer herd, and what food
must have if they are to sur
vive the rigors of winter.
Sportsmen in this group had
gathered from all parts of the
state as far away as Baker
and Troy in northeastern Or
egon to the Gold Beach area
on the south coast. Two legis
lators. Rep. Shirley Field of
Portland and Rep. Edward El
der of Eugene, joined the group
for a show-me trip.
Fire Damage Seen
First stop on the tour was
at a recent burn of several
thousand acres which had al
most wiped out a pure stand
of bitterbrush reckoned to be
the best stand on any winter
range in the state. The area is
slowly coming back into grass
es and herbs, but shtub sur
vival is nearly nonexistent.
Deer use in the area is heavy;
No trouble will occur here
this winter, sportsmen were in
formed, since there has been
no snow to cover grasses,
herbs and other ground cover
pants. But it was apparent to
most in the group what would
happen in this area during even
a moderate winter when snow
would cover completely all
available forage.
The second stop took sports
men to a good stand of bitter
brush on another part of the
range. An exclosure here illus
trated the long leader growth
of untouched shrubs w’ithin the
exclosure, compared to the
cropped condition of the plants
on the outside area.
Even though a moderate win
ter prevails, Vern Max, resi
dent biologist at Summer laek,
reported almost 50 per cent
utilization of the annual shrub
production. Also shown here
were the various trapping and
tagging techniquies where the
animals are tagged and belled
to determine migrations and
distribution.
The third stop was in a sage
area of the range where deer
use of this less palatable
plant is heavy. High skirting
of juniper was also apparent to
most observers.
lake wintering deer herd has
a wide dispersal, and range
over a wide summer range
territory.
A total of 1,260 summer range
observations
were obtained
from 610 deer marked and re
leased prior to the winter of
1962-63. An additional 142 ani
mals have been trapped and
marked during the past win
ter.
Deer Marked
Retrapping of the marked
Of interest
to the entire deer gave some information
group was the migration and of individual movement. A to
hunter kill studies of the Sil tal of 127 deer were retrapped
ver lake deer herd. Observa from one to ten times, and 112
tions, both hearings and sight were retaken in the same
ing, indicate that the Silver trap.
A total of 31 deer were re
trapped on the winter range
in -ubseouent years, 22 being
retaken one year later at the
same ♦r-r> site. Six deer were
retaken no farther than M air
miles from the original trap
ping site.
RUMMAGE SALE
The Valley View Extension
Unit, will have a rummage
sale, April 26, at the annex of
Pleasant
Valley
Baptist
church, 17625 SE Foster Rd.,
beginning at 9 o'clock in the
morning Coffee and dough
nuts will be served.
MOO WINNERS LIST GROWS & GROWS
IN SAFEWAY’S SENSATIONAL FUN GAME
A Few of the $100 Winners
Bules for SPEH C-A-S-H
Anyone 18 years of age may participate except
Safeway employees and members of their im
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time you visit Safeway.
Here's How to Play...
Bertie Weber
Mrs. Thomas B. Embree
Mrs. Frock Arnold
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