7028

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7028
• Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
• Title: Report on the Savery-Pot Hook Project.
• USFW Year: 1976.
• USFW - Doc Type: Denver.
• Copyright Material: NO

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On the Colorado side of the State line, these elk are known as the
Routt herd. Their main wintering area is roughly defined as
extending in an arc from Four Mile Creek on the west, to the
~ South Fork of the Little Snake River on the east--bounded on the
south by the Routt National Forest and on the north by the Little
Snake River (Plate I).

In the winter of 1973, the elk in this area were counted--from a
helicopter--under near-ideal conditions. This survey revealed
~ 2,128 elk by actual count (Figure 6). Colorado studies have shown
that the number counted using a helicopter under ideal conditions,
represents about 70 percent of the total--indicating that approximately
~ 3,000 head of elk were wintering in the area at that time.
During the hunting season, the Routt herd is distributed throughout
~ Elk A4anagement Units 4, 5, and 14. The 1972 hunting season saw
4,091 hunters harvest 734 elk from these three units. These hunters
represented nearly 5 percent of all the elk hunters in Colorado that
~ year and took nearly 4 percent of the total harvest. Routt County,
where most of the 734 elk were killed, was the fifth highest county
in total elk harvest.
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In Wyoming, during the 1974-75 winter survey, 1,100 elk were counted
in and adjacent to the project area. The survey was made using a