Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 25, 1962, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY. OCTOBER 25, 19C2 Habitat, Numbers Determine Amount of Game, Writer Notes By MILT GUYMON Oregon State Gam Commission You can't stockpile game. U would be nice if we could eo every hunter would find a bull elk on every ridge, a beautiful buck deer behind every mahogany thicket, or a bag' limit of pheasants every time he. went afield. There is little doubt Oregon Is one of the finest hunting states In the nation and will continue to be so. But hunters thould remembpr that game numbers will fluctuate from year to year with the amount of game produced depending on the quantity and quality of habitat. In addition, as the hunting nressures and competition be. tween hunters increase - and It has at about 3 per cent an nually - the individual hunt er's chance to score will de crease proportionately. Creared to Losses Most game birds and ani mals are geared to heavy an nual losses, whether hunted or not. Small game is espec ially so. with spring popula tions winding up at around the same levels. Big game, because of slower reproduc tive potentials, are a little slower in bouncing back fol lowing a disastrous winter. But come back they do, pro viding the habitat is there in which they can live. Game habitat is the com plex of soil, water, and plants commonly called cover lit which game birds and mammals exist. It is the life range that must Include escape cover, winler cover, food and water, cover to rear young, and even cover to play. A lack of one or more of these cover requirements will materially reduce the har vestable game numbers an area will support. 'One of the most important concents in both fish and game management is that of carrying capacity. Sportsmen end even fish and game de partments, too often forget that a given piece of land or body of water can support and maintain from year to year only so many pounds of animal life. -Constantly On Alert . .The fish and game manager must be constantly alert to avoid overstocking and to recognize the danger signals of overpopulation. When he examines the fish population of a lake and finds (Hat a large per cent of the specimens are too small for their age, his first suspicion will be that there are too many fish for the carrying capacity of the lake. 'Similarly, he will be more concerned about finding too many deer in an area than too few, since he knows that the excess deer will reduce the fdod supplies to the extent that In future years that same range will have a lower carry ing capacity for deer. On the other hand, a smaller number ot deer would have meant larger animals and these would produce more fawns per year. Unfortunately, most hunt ers remember only the bump er years In the production of pame, he It bird or mammal, and use this as a yardstick from season to season. Look Back io 19SB In Oregon, pheasant gun ners look back on the sudden mushrooming bird population of 1958 and the heavy bag of birds brought home during that season. This is the yard stick by which they measure succeeding seasons, and any thing less results In grum bling. Last year Oregon deer hunt ers recorded a record break ing harvest of almost 165.000 deer and in the future will undoubtedly accept anything less as being a poor season and evidence of depleted deer herds. However, mild winters of the past eight years failed to take its annual toll, allow ing hprds to build beyond the carrying rapacity. They forget that In 1953 more than 1 05. nno doer were taken - con sidered by all to be an excel lent season - and that in 1948 less than 40.000 animals were taken, also considered a good season at the time. The peak in Oregon's mule drpr herd population was probably reached in 1955 while the hlack'ail herds con tinue to climb Data tolhered o:i all ranges show these trends. Averaae Deer Density In 1947 on the blacktail ranees of western Oregon the averace deer density overall was 1 1 deer per mile as re corded on the permanent sam ple route. The trend has been generally upward since, reach ing the highest ever recorded at 4 8 deer per mile in the 19fi2 census. . Mule deer herd trends show a similar pattern, peak ing in 1935 at an average density of 14 5 deer per mile on t'ie winter ranges of east ern Orecon, compared to 1947 censu nf 9 9 drer per mile, and he l!r,2 census of 113 dper p r niiie. F'ttc'natmns hvp occurred en all ranges during the years. but the general trend was up until 1835, followed by tapering trend to the present. For the first time In eight years, eastern Oregon game populations suffered a severe winter, with temperatures dropping to 35 below. It re- Castro Tightens Controls Over Consumer Goods Havana -IUPD- Premier Fi del Castro's revolutionary re gime tightened controls on consumer goods today to halt a wave of panic buying ap parently inspired by the U. S. arms blockade. Storekeepers were instruct ed to limit sales of emergen cy lighting supplies to one quart of lamp alcohol and three candles per family with infant children. Even in these limited quantities, storekeep ers were allowed to sell only to their regular customers. Neigh borhood vigilante committees were alerted to help enforce the order. Ration List Extended The new restriction extend ed a ration list which already included milk, many foods, soap and other staple house hold goods In shortage-ridden Cuba. Housewives flocked to su permarkets and neighborhood groceries Wednesday to stock up on lighting supplies de spite President Kennedy's statement that the blockade would not affect the necessi ties of life and Castro's state ment that his regime could furnish the people's needs. The buyers apparently fear ed that the blockade might soon be extended to cut off the oil imports needed to run the power plants which sup ply electricity o Havana's homes. Shelves Almost Bare Grocery shelves also were swept clear of unrationed foodstuffs despite government broadcasts warning against hoarding. Even coffee was unavaila ble in this coffee - growing country. The general pace of mili tary preparations in Havana accelerated Wednesday, with the emplacement of machine guns and other .antiaircraft weapons on rooftops in many parts of the city. A Russian-made tank which had been stationed outside armed forces headquarters was moved elsewhere, and the patrol boats which had been operating about a mile off the waterfront disappeared. mained cold for two weeks or more, and snow in some areas was heavy. Qual Hard Hit Quail populations were hird hit in southeastern Oregon, destroying entire coveys In some areas and in general re ducing bird numbers to a bare minimum. However, this sea son brood production was good and hunters are finding good numbers of quail, illus trating how populations snap back with determination. .Other game was equally hard hit. Frigid temperatures took a toll of pheasants and partridge. Even rabbits in some areas had a hard go of it. Deer, too, were hard hit on several winter ranges. Some winter losses were felt In cen tral Oregon and in the Klam ath area, but hardest hit were the ranges in Malheur and Harney counties of southeast ern Oregon and on some ranges in the northeast part of the state. Hunters were advised of these losses late last spring when they were informed that forked-horn deer and year lings would be found in fewer numbers on these ranges this fall. Not Without Disaster You can't stockpile game without disaster. A combina tion of favorable circum slances resulted in the stock piling of deer on all ranges in eastern Oregon for the past eight to ten years. The in evitable Is bound to hanpen, and for the first lime since the stockpiling began a severe winter on some of these ranges may have accomplish ed what game managers have been trying to accomplish for a number of years. Habitat and carrying capa city being what they are the bumper crops are the excep tion rather than the rule. If any species could stock pile, the accumulated annual gains would produce a plague within a few year's time. But it doesn't happen that way for the annual fall surplus, ex cept under unusual circum stances, cannot survive to the following spring. And hunting does no more than take part of the annual surplus. As a result, hunting success will vary. BREAKS RECORD L o n d o n-WPII-Shin Keum Dan of North Korea cracked the existing record for the women's world 400 meter run Wednesday with a time of 51.9 seconds. The clocking, which eclipsed the 53.4 sec onds held by Russia's Maria Itkina. will, not be officially recognized because North Ko rea is not a member of the International Amateur Ath letic Federation. Low Accident Rate Noted Last Year Salem (LTD Oregon record ed the second lowest accident frequency rate in Its history in the fiscal year which end ed In June, the Industrial Ac cident commission said today. The rate was 36.3. The low est rate on record was 36.1 In the 1960-61 fiscal year. The quequency Is based on each one million man hours worked. The low figures are more significant coupled with the fact that Oregon has expand ed industrially, the commis sion said. It added thta "in dustry and labor have caught the significance of planned safety procedures." The accident frequency in 1932 was a high 72.2 per mil lion man hours, and has been declining since. Oregon's biggest Industry, lumber, records the largest number of industrial deaths, but the commission noted thta in the 1961-62 fiscal year fatalities totaled 48. Ten years ago the total of lumbering fa talities was 86. Total fatalities In 1961-62 were 116, compared to 143 a decade ago. Police Check Two Accidents in City Vehicles operated by Rob ert Leroy Larson, 30, of 1024 East Jackson St., and Kay Louise Saffell, 26, of 524 Pearl St., collided about 7:55 o'clock this morning on Jack son st. between Hawthorne ave. and Genessee st. No in juries were reported, police said, and no citations were is sued. Richard Douglas Larson, 16, of 3278 Madrona ave., was cited for failure to yield the right of way after his car col lided with a vehicle operated by Keith Gordon Thompson, 29, of 531 Haven St., about 2:55 p.m. Wednesday at Oak and Haven sts. No Injuries were reported, police said. Short on Agriculture 'Hall of Fame' Board Salem flTPD Oregon Agri culture! Director James F. Short has been named to the board of governors of the pro posed agricultural "Hall of Fame" near Kansas City, Mo. Purpose of the facility, not yet constructed, is to memo rialize U.S. agriculture. Chairman of the board of governors is Oliver S. Will ham, Kansas City, Mo. "Try Sunny Brook-you'H like everything about it" "and you'll like a the price, too" A remarkable price for Sunny Brook, one of America's finest whiskies Sunny Brook enjoys a nation-wide reputation as a magnificently matured Kentucky whiskey. Try the smooth, 00 proof straight, or the smooth and extra mild blend. Either way you'll like thechangt.' ArPi ONLY $d65 F0R THE STRAICHT "i 45 or 0R THE BLEND Pinf SUNNY BROOK 4 J , sT 'VlIT' mm I .i. .41 SUNNY I fit.n 8TJNNY Brook THC13 ."''!' CO. CI D, i, UIA l!!.C'St'l mPBI' ilv;0IOOI.lill!.Cll.t.tiOvi:'lMI'OC.'.XS'll'J'llltf,'l'l Key West Outpost Ready for Attempt To Run Blockade Key West, Fla. - OTD - This small but lethal U.S. outpost only 90 miles from Cuba was wrapped In a watch-and-wait atmosphere today with the Army, Air Force and Marines in apparent readiness to halt any attempt to run the Cuban blocokade. The city baseball sladium, under preparation for the past four days, was occupied by a large convoy of Army trucks which rolled in Wednesday night with weapons and equip ment - but few troops. The Air Force and Marines were hidden behind high fences and tight security at the Boca Chica Naval Air Sta tion and the Navy seaplane base here. Train Arrives A long train, which Includ ed Pullman cars with troops and flatcars loaded with equipment pulled into Home stead Air Force Base (Miami) early today. Although no of ficial announcement would be made, it was understood that they would be sent here to day. Military officials still re fused to discuss troop or equipment shifts, but it was apparent Wednesday that equipment for the thousands of troops here was still com ing on strong. "Scrambles" by supersonic jet fighters, however, appar ently slacked off Wednesday. The jets had been taking off in pairs, about every 30 min utes earlier in the week. Wednesday night's convoy was the third lo arrive during the day. Another group of trucks bearing equipment ar rived shortly after midday, and a small group of civilian trucks arrived later. The civilian vehicles had "explo sives" marked on the side in big letters. Photographers Retained Security tightened even more than during the first part of the week Wednesday when news p h o t o g raphers were retained at a Navy se curity building in front of the seaplane base and released after they were told not to take any mora photographs of the area. The Federal Aviation Au thority has clamped down on all civilian flights in the area and required flight plans be approved by military authori ties before takeoff. Armed Forces in France on Alert If Crisis Spreads Paris -ilW- France nut lis armed forces on alert today to be ready for action should the Cuban crisis spread to Europe. No. 2 alert orders went out lo French forces after a half hour meeting of the Defense Council Wednesday night un der the chairmanship of Pres ident Charles de Gaulle. No. 2 alert is the final stage before general mobilization. It includes preparing list of key reserve officers who would he recalled lo the col ors at once in case of general mobilization. French air force units, par ticularly those In the Hheims and Dijon regions of eastern France, were ordered to stand by for a possible full alert. Similar orders were flashed to airborne troops and marine units. Ordered at Precaution French government sources said none of these moves could be considered as spec tacular and that they were ordered simply as a precau tion. The sources said De Gaulle has voiced optimism that a nuclear conflict is unlikely. He was said to have told the cabinet that he Is hopeful the Cuban crisis ultimately will he settled wilhou' war. He is reported to feel that President Kennedy will emerge with increased pres tige from the situation. SHIP IT USME to or from Otklind, San Fran eiuo. Lot Angelet and other California points. Call Jack Fitzgerald Effective, Responsible Leadership ED BRANCHFIELD crn for State Representative 'Vote for three, including me' Pi. Pet. Ad., Brenchfleld lor State Rep. Comm., Sam Harbiien, Chmn., 2125 Orchard Heme Drive. 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