East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-04-24
FROM THE PEOPLE
THE DEER SEASON.
Ukiah, Ore, April %, 1913.
Editor East Oregonian:

Ukiah, Ore, April %, 1918.
Editor East Oregonian:
| have been game warden In the
Ukiah and Ritter district the last
three months. Many of the people
are in favor of protecting the game.
Some are not, but most of them do
not approve of the time the deer sea-
season is open They think that
game laws are made to benefit the
city sportsmen because the season is
opened just when most of the noun
tain farmers are busy in harvest and
can not go hunting. They want the
hunting season during the month of
December. Then there is snow and
they have time to hunt. But sup
pose they look at the game and not
the law.
AS we know, we can only kill bucks
and a second thought should con-
vince us that buck deer are in their
prime in September and October,
when the season is open. 1t is my
belief. which 1 think is somewhere
near correct as l have given the
game in this district very close atten-
ton the last seven years, that If the
deer were left entirely alone and we'll
protected for five years they would
be so plentiful that it would be an
easy matter to go out and kill the linn
it during the open season, because 1t
is wonderful how fast deer will in
crease For instance: Say we start
with one female and 1t is very seldom
that a female deer over two years
old has less than two fawns, and a
barren doe does not appear, it would
be safe to say one in a hundred, so
we will start with one doe.
The first year she will have one
fawn, that makes two. The second
year she will have two fawns and the
yearling making four. The third
year she will have two fawns and two
yearlings and one oyear-old The
-year-old will have one fawn,
| making seven.
The fourth year she will have two
fawns and two two-year-olds and one
| three-year-old. The three-year-ol
will have two fawns and one yearling
and the two two-learolds will have
one fawn each, making eleven. The
fifth year she will have two fawns
and two three-year-olds and two two
year-olds and two yearlings and one
four-year- old. The four-year-old will
have two fawns and one two-year ell
and two yearlings and the two-yeal
old will have one fawn and the two
| three-year-o will have one yearling
and two fawns each and the two two
year-olds will have on fawn each.
This makes a total of "a deer in the
five years to start with one.
1t is estimated that there is about
1900 head of deer in the Whitman
forest. If 1t was possible to protect
them for five years and let them in
crease according to these figures
there would be $4,000 head where
there is only 1900 now, and IL only
one-third of them did we'll there
would be $4,000 head. Then it would
be an easy matter to kill our limited
number during the open season.
In 1910 I began work as guard on
| the Whitman forest. Near my fire
lookout one old doe raised two fawns
/ in 1911. There was one old doe lived
in the same place and had with her
| two yearlings and two fawns In 1912
| She returned with two two-year- olds
and two yearlings and raised two
| fawns in the same time and each OF
the two year olds had one fawn. This
made nine in the bunch and three
| years ago there were only one.
Yours truly,
RUSH RAMSEY,
Deputy Game Warden.