- Rexford District - 1000 mule deer and 400 white-tailed 

 deer. 



- War land District - 1600 mule deer and 1000 white-tailed 

 deer. 



Blair and Wilson (1953) - MDPG - reported the forage on the 

 Fisher River -Wolf Creek area was still in critical condition. 

 Ihey experimented with 4 different methods of rejuvenating 

 browse . 



Couvillion (1953) - MDFG - ctoserved no winter deer movements 

 due to the mild winter. 



1954 U.S :'orest Service - populatiai estimates. 



- Fisher River District - 3500 mule deer and 10,000 white- 

 tailed deer. 



- Rexford District - 1000 mule deer and 450 white-tailed 

 deer. 



- Warland District - 1600 mule deer and 1000 white-tailed 

 deer. 



Blair (1954a) - MDFG - conducted an intensive winter survey 

 as part of the Lincoln County deer study. There were an 

 estimated 10,917 white-tailed deer (strip census) occupying 

 a winter range totaling 26,343 (9301 acres of bottomlands, 

 and 17,042 acres of south and west slopes). During the 1953- 

 54 winter conditions forced the deer to concentrate on the 

 bottomlands. Mortality estimates were 921 dead on the 

 bottomlands and 307 dead on the south and west slopes (total 

 - 1228) . 



Blair (1954b) - MDPG - repeated the three management problems: 



(1) The increase in white-tailed deer numbers; (2) the 

 over-utilization of available browse; and 3) the under 

 harvest of the population. The herd is very reproductive 

 with the 1953 harvest consisting of 70.8% in the 1 1/2, 2 

 1/2, and 3 1/2 year age classes. 



Blair (1954c) - MDFG - reported a total of 26,343 acres of 

 winter range of which 9301 acres (bottomlands) is restricted 

 winter range, inhabited by an estimated 10,917 white-tailed 

 deer (strip census). There was density of 1.17 deer/acre on 

 the restricted winter range during the hardest portion of the 

 winter . 



Blair and Wilson (1954) - MDFG - reported 26,343 acres of 

 winter range occupied by 10,917 white-tailed deer (95% 



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