pelov. It should be noted that no cranes were checked subsequent to 
January 21. 
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(j) Distribution of harvest by counties: The harvest geographically 
was centered in Chaves County, where checking station data and field checks 
indicate 71.3 percent of the harvest occurred. The harvest in Chaves 
County from the postal survey accounted for 68.1 percent of the total. In 
Eddy County, where only 11.9 percent of the cranes checked were taken, the 
postal survey indicates 20.3 percent of the total harvest. This my be 
explained by the fact that hunting in Eddy County was accomplished largely 
by hunters from Carlsbad and Artesia, and consequently a trip to any of 
ths checking stations would have been of considerable inconvenience. In 
establishing these stations it had been anticipated that very little of 
the harvest would occur south of Dexter and that Artesia and Carlsbad 
hunters would be accommodated by the checking station at Dexter. In 
Roosevelt County, where approximately half of the cranes in the State were 
feeding and roosting at the beginning of the season, 11.6 percent of the 
indicated total harvest occurred. Field checks here accounted for 16.8 
percent of the cranes checked. This difference may be explained by the 
open prairie nature of the country, where one can see great distances and 
should be able to contact a higher percentage of the hunters than would 
be possible in the brushy Pecos Yalley of Chaves and Eddy Counties. 
The residential origin of the hunters who contributed to the harvest 
was largely local (71 percent). Only four nonresident hunters were 
checked with cranes bagged. 
(k) Total harvest: The total harvest of cranes during ths season, 
projected from postal survey data, was 542. This is 1.7 percent of the 
cranes determined to be presant in the area open to muting at the begin- 
ning of the season. | 
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