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                                     Hove~er 2 1928. 
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       Considerabile connnt has been mde su~esting that 
there was a real short. ze uf ucks in Utah which resulted in 
there being n.yu dry does observed. I believe this impression 
is erroneous. 
 
       here is a deoided Jacl of definite inforuati     on the 
ecessary relation of numbers of bucks to breeding does but 
considerable of a general nature. It is alw       --s the tendency 
for hunters to believe that bucks are scarce.    -turinC thohunt- 
in, season the early storms ve generally broken up the buck 
herds and the bucks are widely scattered in the hGI timbered 
sections where they are much more difficult to find than does 
and fawns. I believe the bucks move slihtly and are laying 
up fat for later activities, on my recent trip to the Middle 
Fok of Salmon liver I counted about 140 does and fawns and 
not a single buck. 1owever, the increase of fawns on adll 
does was 90C or in other words 45   of all the deer I saw were 
fawns. This was in a section where does and fawns imy be shot. 
In wiin  the tallies of does -nd fLwns all three of us were 
makink careful observations a;n  many times it was difficult 
to be sure A thout the use of "lasses just which ,:oere young 
animals. IL ;e had to use care to distinguish them what about 
the ordinary hunter? How Iri hunters realize that all year- 
ling does are dry and thet t ore are always some does which 
dropDed fawns lv hch have lost them?  In Idaho where does ae 
killed it is the tenAseny to call any fat doe a ury one. 
--ldo Leopold on the basis of a large amount of data on deer 
rýrýnes in the southwest csves the normal mke-up of deer herds

where there is an abundance of bucs      dy does and    0 
bearinc 150%- fawns. JTohn !:urnham in his deer eark allows one 
buck to seven to eiUht breeding does.    Cen J  ith thinks one 
buck tI four does is plenty           uo ttout any uestionl. 'n t. 
,tanislaus lationl  orest, CalfomiLa, were a buck law had 
been in effect 7cr several -ers at ceast and x oe the deer 
were practically extermited in controlling the foot and 
mouth disease, infor ation Cathered during the killing indi- 
cated at least one 0.uck to two s. ýom pcsonl observa- 
tions I would not be at all sur-rised if some such ratio would 
be found to exist on most of the Utah ranx-s.    I believe that 
if we count all deer observed at a time vhen te bucks are 
with the does and not se   teated on the higher sections and