Percent Fawns Taken Annually 



Figure 5. — Yield and population numbers at equilibrium for two buck-doe 

 hunting strategies and variable fawn hunting percentages. 



must be controlled, but public hunting is con- 

 sidered incompatible with other management 

 goals. In such situations, it is customary for 

 surplus animals to be shot by park officials. 

 Our calculations indicate that these removal 

 programs should be directed solely against 

 adult females to provide the most effective 

 population control. This would minimize the 

 number of animals to be killed, as well as the 

 manpower requirements, and would additional- 

 ly maintain a high proportion of the aesthetical- 

 ly desirable adult males in the population. 



CONCLUSIONS 



Computer simulation of dynamic biomanage- 

 ment systems appears to provide a means of 

 generating information useful to resource 

 managers and to research administrators. In 

 building computer simulation models, research- 

 ers and managers put together their theoretical 

 and practical knowledge of a system. This 

 process frequently results in finding existing 

 gaps in empirical data, and helps to revise 



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