Open Seasons 
Upon creation of the area as a game district the Conservation 
Department should have the authority to dispose of all excess game. 
The number of animals shot would be regulated by tags to be issued 
until the excess population of each animal was shot off. The hunt- 
ing season should be long so that not more than 20 hunters would be 
hunting any one species of game on any one day. Rabbits might be an 
exception. ?or example, 10 might be hunting deer, 10 prairie chickens, 
10 ducks, and 10 squirrels, making 40 hunters in all. All hunters 
would check in amount of game killed at entrance point before leaving 
the area. 
Deer 
There are a thousand or more deer on the area. The winter quarters 
are in the spruce forests in Jackson County where as many as 100 can be 
seen in a day's travel. At present the excess deer are killed by 
violators and sold illegally. 
Managed as a game district, there would be about 500 excess deer 
to be removed annually. 
Rabbits 
There are enough rabbits on the area to furnish good rabbit hunt- 
ing to any number of hunters. 
Grouse 
Refloding of parts of the area would extend the range of the 
prairie chicken into this area and would increase the number of sharp- 
tails .already on the area. 
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