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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 754 ac (4,352 ha). The Fish and Wildlife Service reports anticipated serious repercussions with regard to the expanding deer herd of the Carlyle area (Janzen. 1954). viz: The bottom lands in the vicinity of Carlyle sustain IS to 2S deer. Food and cover are available for a substantially larger herd. Assuming the decimating factors of poaching and harassment by dogs will be curtailed as the possibili- ty of a legal deer season becomes more certain, it seems probable that the Carlyle deer herd would increase. After the project was installed, the following conditions were projected: Approximately 17,000 acres of potential big-game habitat would be destroyed through inundation. This loss would re- duce the potential annual deer value of the Carlyle area by 60 percent, and greatly reduce the chance of success in de- veloping a permanent deer herd in the Kaskaskia Basin. The Kaskaskia Basin was described in the pre-construction document as "an area of 5.840 square miles." This concern again proved to be over- ly pessimistic. In fact. the average annual deer harvest in the three- county area contiguous to the project almost doubled after impoundment, increasing from 130 deer per year in pre-impoundment years to 256 per year following impoundment. This rate of increase paralleled a similar incre throughout southern Illinois during the same period. Pro- ject pacts on deer resources were restricted to the immediate area of the poject and appeared to be directly related to the amount of deer ha- I . bitat !directly lost due to impoundment and associated project development (.Mart n. Prosser and Stroud, 1978). Clark Hill Lake. The oldest and largest project among those evaluated. Clark Hill permanently inundated 70.000 ac (28,329 ha) along the Savan- nah ver in Georgia and South Carolina. This project was constructed prior to the imposition of more restrictive land acquisition policies 46