FORTIETH BIENNIAL REPORT 73 



BIG GAME TRAPPING 



The biennium has experienced an expanded program of manipula- 

 tion of big game populations. In an attempt to create new centers of 

 game populations for eventual harvesting by sportsmen in presently 

 unoccupied habitat, requests for moving big game were made by sports- 

 men, the Division of Parks, and the Fish and Game Commission. 

 Although this management tool is relatively new in California and the 

 procedure expensive, the following trapping and transplanting was 

 accomplished : 



Antelope — 38 head were trapped at Mud Flat, Lassen County, of 

 which 32 survived the transport, and were liberated near Mono Lake, 

 Mono County, in 1947. 



Elk — 17 head were trapped at the Prairie Creek Redwoods State 

 Park near Orick, Humboldt County, and were liberated in Bear Valley, 

 Del Norte County, in 1947. 



Deer — About 40 head were trapped in Capay Valley, Yolo County, 

 and liberated in the Livermore Hills area in several counties. 



One of the lengthiest hauls of trapped deer in history involved the 

 movement of 49 deer from Lassen County to the Providence Mountains 

 of San Bernardino County. 



