Date of Award:

5-1962

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Wildland Resources

Department name when degree awarded

Wildlife Biology

Committee Chair(s)

Jessop B. Low

Committee

Jessop B. Low

Committee

Allen W. Stokes

Committee

Keith L. Dixon

Committee

Arthur H. Holmgren

Abstract

Parsons (1953) found Utah's posted hunting unit system regulated hunting pressures over much of the state's pheasant range. He found inequalities of hunting pressure among the posted hunting units because of their individualistic methods used to determine the number of hunting permits to be sold. Utah State Department of Fish and Game personnel recommend the number of permits to be sold by the hunting unit; but often, the hunting unit officers use the desired level of hunting pressure, size of cock harvest, and revenue from permit sales as decisive factors. By regulating hunting pressure on their own lands the posted hunting units thereby regulate the hunting pressure on adjacent nonposted lands by excluding the supernumerary hunters from their units.

With cock-only hunts, the best short-term management policy for pheasants is the full utilization of the surplus crop of cocks. In pheasant hunting studies conducted in various parts of Cache County, Utah, Stokes (1955) concluded that cock harvests ranging from 71 to 86 percent were nearly adequate, but Reynolds (1956) concluded that the cock harvests of 69 and 75 percents were inadequate in his study area. Some Utah game biologists are of the opinion that the state's total cock harvest is inadequate during the short season of from 3 to 7 days; however, adequate harvests are possibly obtained in certain local areas having high hunting pressure.

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