. California range brushlands and browse plants. Browse (Animal food); Brush; Forage plants. Deer inhabit over 20 million acres of privately owned range land. These lands often support 20 to 50 deer per square mile, and in some areas more than 100 deer per square mile""*. Obviously the number of hunters is not increasing in proportion with California's population up- surge, mostly because the available hunting area has de- creased as many private owners do not permit trespass- ing on their land in order to prevent damage by an irresponsible minority. California Department of Fish and
. California range brushlands and browse plants. Browse (Animal food); Brush; Forage plants. Deer inhabit over 20 million acres of privately owned range land. These lands often support 20 to 50 deer per square mile, and in some areas more than 100 deer per square mile""*. Obviously the number of hunters is not increasing in proportion with California's population up- surge, mostly because the available hunting area has de- creased as many private owners do not permit trespass- ing on their land in order to prevent damage by an irresponsible minority. California Department of Fish and Game and Univer- sitv of California research workers have long recom- mended that either-sex hunting be incorporated in the management plans. They feel that only through such control of deer numbers can stocking rates be balanced with the grazing capacity and other uses of the lands. In tins way the remaining deer will have more and better forage available and therefore be healthier, attain better size, and be more productive1140'. To be fully effective, such hunting policv would have to be accompanied by certain management practices to improve the forage cover. In addition to regulation of the deer herd numbers as an essential step in range management, various new techniques of range improvement have been investi- gated and are now being applied to a limited extent by the California Department of Fish and Game on certain public lands used by deer. Some of these improvement measures are: spot burning; broadcast-control burning; reseeding; opening up the brush stand on small selected sites by bulldozing; regulated grazing of livestock on critical areas; selective and regulated logging in timber areas; water development; salting; and certain other procedures useful in promoting better range condition'"' L45>. Such improvement is equally beneficial to livestock and deer, and may be expected to increase the returns from both. However, few California ranchers have resorted
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