8020

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8020
• Author: Horak, G. C.
• Title: Proceedings of the Symposium on Mitigating Developmental Impacts on Fish and Wildlife.
• USFW Year: 1979.
• USFW - Doc Type: March 1979.
• Copyright Material: NO

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ing within the reservoir area. Upland-game hunting will amount
to about 2,100 man-days annually, a significant loss attribut-
able to the project. Waterfowl hunting, on the other hand,
will increase to about 9,800 man-days annually.

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Additional lands

not acquired, although the Oklahoma Department of

Wildlife Conservat on recently acquired license to manage 12,400 ac (5,

018 ha) of inclden ally purchased project lands. The Department's plan

for development of these lands (1974) obviously attaches greater wildlife

potential than was projected in the pre-construction planning document,

viz:

The proposed ystone Public Hunting Area has great potential
for satisfyin much of the hunting, fishing and wildlife ori-
ented needs 0 north-central Oklahoma.

The area offe s its greatest potential for bobwhite quail and
deer manageme t. Development will be carried out with empha-
sis on these pecies. Efforts to enhance all other species
will be inclu ed in the program.

The proposed evelopment program is expected to provide the
following hun ing opportunity:

and Game Species - 7,000 mandays
Game Species - 1,000 mandays
ratory Bird Species - 2,000 mandays

The project-induce impacts on deer were accurately predicted for four of

the evaluated proj Three of the four had little or no effect on deer,

four studies are

losses to the local deer herd. These

while the fourth r

in the following section.

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Okatibbee Lake. T~iS 3,800 ac (l,538ha) lake is surrounded by 7,150 ac

(2,894 ha) of land I acquired in fee. The Fish and Wildlife Service believed

that this land aCqtisition plan was adequate with proper management, to re-

place the wildlife resources destroyed by the permanent inundation (Gresh,

1964), viz:

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