Units 071 and 073 Tabor Flats, Pole Creek, Oil Well Fire 39,400 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

 Units 071 and 073

 Tabor Flats, Pole Creek, Oil Well Fire  39,400 acres by August 3, 2017

 Units 062, 067, and 068

 Rooster’s Comb, Snowstorm, Cornucopia, Black Point  374,000 acres by August 3, 2017

 Cumulative effects of fires from last year

 Hot Pot and Izzenhood Fires  122,300 acres (Hot Pot alone)

 Units 071 and 073

 Pronghorn concentrate along Interstate 80 between

Mountain City Highway and Deeth-Charleston Road

 Typically about 1,000 pronghorn spend winter here

 Units 062, 067, and 068

 Pronghorn and deer concentrate on winter range South

and West of Sheep Creeks and portions of Unit 066

 Typically 500-700 pronghorn spend winter on east of

Sheep Creek

 Another 600-700 pronghorn winter along southern edge

• f Owyhee Desert (Unit 066)

 4,000-5,000 mule deer spend winter in this area

 Reduce over-winter numbers  Limit dependence on winter range that has reduced

forage quantity and quality

 Improve likelihood that pronghorn and mule deer will

survive winter with better body condition

 Investigating potential translocations of pronghorn to

Colville Confederated Tribes and Yakama Tribe in Washington – both have made requests for pronghorn

 Pronghorn follow existing seasons, 4 day overlap with

existing any legal weapon mule deer seasons

 071, 073 horns shorter than ears antelope Sep 25-Oct 9

 About 300 tags

 062, 067, 068 horns shorter than ears antelope Sep 25-

Oct 9

 About 400 tags

 Mule deer overlap existing antlerless seasons (160 tags

in each hunt) and portions of depredation elk hunts

 062, 067, 068 antlerless deer Oct 10-31

 About 350 tags

 062, 067, 068 antlerless deer Nov 6-20

 About 350 tags

 Department was granted authority to hold this hunt

through CR 17-05 adopted on February 11, 2017

 The Department recommends that the Commission

VOTE TO ENDORSE THE PROPOSED EMERGENCY SEASONS AS PRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT.