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-13- • Management Uni~ harvest may bed are free to tr sample year, 7 killed 2,517 d and a 71 perce deer populatio s 3, 4, and 5. In lieu of winter counts, hunter used as an indicator of populations where hunters vel and hunt in an open area. Using 1972 as a ~3 hunters took 507 deer in Unit 5, while 3,539 hunters er in Unit 3. These figures represent a 66 percent ~t success ratio, both indicative of an excellent In Wyoming, pa is of deer Management Units 100 (South Wamsutter) and 82 (Baggs) lie within the area of influence of the Savery-Pot Hook Project. Deer in the South Wamsutter Management Unit are spread out over a wid high desert region to the west of Baggs. Deer in the Baggs M nagement Unit, however, inhabit the highlands to the east of Savery Creek in the summer and fall and many concentrate in the project vicinity during the winter. The Baggs Unit supported an average kil of 1,150 animals in the 1972-74 seasons. A great many area (Figure here constitu Unit A-3. Th and its size by the Colorac it was agreed horn antelope winter in and adjacent to the project On the Colorado side of the line the antelope wintering . a major fraction of all the antelope in Management Unit A-3 herd is the largest in the State of Colorado, ,increasing. In a long-range management plan developed Division of Wildlife and the Bureau of Land Management, :hat this Unit could adequately support 5,000 antelope.