>I am trying to find out
>the buck to doe ratio
>in the 60's era in
>utah. I searched on
>dwr website could not find
>it. wondering if someone
>here might know.
>Thanks,
I received the 1962 report that I GRAMA'ed last week, but it doesn't include anything about the buck to doe ratios. Apparently it didn't matter back then. I do know that 43.2% (55,092) of the deer killed that year were does, so any post season buck to doe ratios would have been a bit higher than if only bucks were killed.
The issue back then was "hunting pressure" meaning hunters in the field at any given time during the regular season, ie; overcrowding. They even kept stats on how many hunters were in the unit, the number of deer that were killed each day and where the hunters lived (county, non-resident). The information was gathered by checking stations, postcards, and some phone calls. To combat that problem and spread the people out they had "Special" hunts including archery, antlerless, either sex, two deer (one must be antlerless), conditional (depredation, mitigation, landowner), and some units had split seasons and extensions of up to 5 or 13 or 72 days or 2 weekends. It looks like quite an operation!
But where the importance of buck to doe ratios came in, I'm not sure and it would be hard to figure it out based on this report.