- Estimated the carrying capacity at 2000 deer which is 

 equal to the 1957 estimates. The hunter harvest was 560 

 or 30 percent of the estimated population. 



- Fire, the major factor maintaining the ponderosa pine 

 disclimax, has been controlled to burned areas amounting 

 to only a fraction of 1.0 percent of the area annually. 



- Current policy is to reserve 40 percent of the available 

 forage of the grazing units for wildlife use. 



1963 U.S. Forest Service - Wildlife Management Plan - Libby Ranger 

 District - 



- Produced a winter range map based on surveys during the 

 winter of 1953-54, 1955-56, and 1961-62. 



- Recommended enlarging the area between Swede, Mountain 

 south to McMillan Creek (7,680 acres) based on surveys 

 during the winter of 1963-64. 



1964 Couey and Weckwerth (1964) - MDFG 



- Reported the major area for railroad kills is from 

 Stryker to Libby on the Great Northern Railroad (no 

 numbers were given). 



1965 Couey and Weckwerth (1965) - MDFG 



- Reported the railroad track inspector estimated 375 

 deer, 6 moose and 19 turkeys were killed by the train be- 

 tween Fortine and Jennings during the 1964-65 winter. 



- Two sections of track (5 miles each) were walked with 

 11.4 deer/mile found in the Fortine area and 3.8 deer/ 

 mile found in the Rexford area. 



U.S. Forest Service - Wildlife Management Plan, Warland 

 Ranger District (U.S. Dep. Agric. 1965a). 



- Reported that mule deer and white-tailed deer at near 

 equal numbers on all ranges except the Ten Mile Creek 

 to Warex Peak segment where mule deer and bighorn sheep 

 still dominate. 



- Winter ranges are recovering from the over-utilization 

 the period of peak populations. 



- Estimabed 20 percent of the critical winter range avail- 

 able to game v/ill be lost following the construction of 

 Libby Dam. 



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