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s te TEN The Gazette-Times. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 12, 1979 Irrigon-Boardman tittle League finishes season with flourish Controlled Hunt deadline near w ' sfe J! tl I i '4 The Fish and Wildlife De partment conducted a public fisheries workshop in its Portland headquarters at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 11. Fisheries staff of the De partment presented abstracts of management plans for ten streams or stream sec tions which are being consid ered for classification under the wild fish management policy adopted last year. Also up for discussion was a possible reduction in the stream trout bag limit next year. The daily general limit now is 10 trout and staff biologists are considering a possible reduction to 5 trout per day on most streams in the state. Bag limits would prob ably remain at 10 per day on most standing water bodies. Hunt Deadline Soon The last chance to apply for any of the 1979 controlled deer or elk hunts in Oregon is Monday, July 16. Applications postmarked after that date cannot be entered in the August 16 drawing. Printed regulations listing all hunts and application procedures, and application cards are available from hunting and fishing license agents all over the state. Applications must be filled out correctly and accompanied by the appropriate application fee to be entered in the drawing, so hunters are urged by the Fish and Wildlife Department to carefully read and follow application in structions. Turkey Hunters Successful Thirteen was the lucky number for turkey hunters reporting on the success of their spring gobbler hunt this year. Of 193 hunters who returned their hunt informa tion cards, that is the number who reported success in bag ging a turkey dinner. Of that group, 37 said they did not hunt so the success rate for those who did hovered around nine percent. Cold weather, a later than normal spring, and wide distribution of the birds all appeared to be factors in reducing the har vest about 25 percent over the previous two seasons. Some 350 permits were authorized for a nine-day season the latter half of April. Even though success; was characteristically low,- more Than half of those who jiunted reported they had seen or heard turkeys. Eight birds were taken in the South Wasco area, four from North wasco, and one from the Northeast area. Ralph Denney, biologist in charge of the Fish and Wildlife Department's upland bird pro gram, says a cooperative research project is about to be launched to learn more about Oregon's Merriam turkeys whose main population is centered in Wasco County. Participants will be, in addi tion to the Department, Ore gon State University and the Mount Hood National Forest. Field work will begin this winter, Denney said, to eval uate the effectiveness of different methods of live-capturing turkeys. In the past, attempts to capture turkeys here have met with mixed success. One method that has been tried involves the use of a cannon net. In this method a large net is anchored along one edge of a baited area. The opposite edge of the net is fired by several small cannons over birds which have come to bait. The net must be carefully concealed, and the method requires someone to be pre sent to watch for the birds and to fire the net at the appropriate time. It is an elaborate setup with plenty of opportunities for something to go wrong. But it has nonetheless been success ful on occasion in capturing birds for transplant in other areas and will be tried again this winter. Other methods to be eval uated include use of drop nets, baited walk-in traps, and drugged baits which tempor arily disorient and immobilize the birds long enough t-r capture by hand. Birds t p tured during tests will be banded and affixed with streamer tags to help in evaluating habit patterns and movements in subsequent sightings or recoveries. The following winter, during December and January, the best trapping method will be used in attempts to capture up to 15 turkeys of various sex and age which will be fitted with small battery-powered radio transmitters. Each transmitter will emit a differ ent signal, enabling biologists in the field to follow their movements with special radio receivers. The birds will be monitored for a full year in order to learn more about such things as movements during various seasons, feed and habitat-type preferences, preferred nesting sites, roost ing patterns and other habits. ml j J nVlI 1" ) y i u -a w Butch Knowles Knowles top rider at St. Paul Rodeo Butch Knowles of Heppner earned the all-around cowboy honors at the 44th annual St. Paul Rodeo on the Fourth of July. He claimed the honors by winning the saddle bronc riding championship and places in bull riding. His total purse was $3,080, which included monies from the rodeo association and the Bank of Oregon. His name also will go on the St. Paul President's trophy, and he now has a leg on the trophy. A cowboy must win three times to claim permanent posses sion of the large prize. Knowles won the honors MtME-M I I uuurntu ii :SST i C ONIONS I flit AirtftWle. 1 m B.i, chm . ii n 11 aw n aw $vi yo 4 A R vi lbs. vj w v II Klli 1 so LB BI...7.9S icaixRtcA a i . f : T;:r; )L UfJlJ3& 1 r 1 i 30 twy. H5 SHi 54T-TH3 H 'C555?iSS;W1-www. Information gained in this phase of the study will be a big help to wildlife managers. Turkeys are shy and secre tive, and little is known about them compared with other game species. Other research will attempt to determine the best habitat types for the various races of turkeys. It may well be that some areas are especially well-suited to one variety but not another. There is quite a bit of interest in turkeys and in turkey hunting and there may U substantially more poten tial for turkeys in Oregon than has been realized so far, says Denney. About 1,200 applica tions are received each year for the 350 permits available i 41 fW Knowles won the honors from a field of 300 performers. Total purse for the four-performance rodeo was $52,900. For winning the saddle bronc championship, he received $2,059, as well as a beautiful silver belt buckle. Julie Doering, Athena, won $562, for placing first in the girl barrelracing event. Tom Flannekin and son, Tommy Jr., won the team roping event, with each receiving $470. They are from Redmond, Ore. St. Paul's 45th annual rodeo will be held next July 3, 4 and in the spring turkey season, so relatively few of those who would like to hunt wild turkeys are currently able to do so. One turkey introduction that may have a bright future began with the release of-20 Rio Grande turkeys in 1975 near Medtord. Twenty birds is an extremely small beginning where the introduction of a new wildlife species is con cerned, but these birds seem to be doing quite well. As of this spring, biologists could account for 125 to 150 birds and they seem to be expanding their range as well 10 i A A a . K A a A A a hi k yi . i t yi i x vi w V v v ry v v v v y SPECIAL UT! SPECIAL SPECIAL 1 SA 01DFASHI0HED X COUNTRY STYIE -A BIADE ; k siAi x mm ww A C BACON illiS GMWS REG. 1.49 fl REG; yj Mff as their numbers. The birds came from northern Califor nia. They had been introduced there from Texas in about 1968 and in only a few years had spread to 34 counties. The habitat type in northern Calif ornia where these birds have done so well is quite similar to that in much of Jackson and Josephine counties. There are also several small populations of Eastern tur keys east of Eugene and in the Rogue River Canyon. 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