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<br />-14- <br />C~ <br />The critical winter range for these antelope is the sagebrush biome <br />generally below elevation 6,500 feet approximately from Willow Creek <br />on the east, west along the Little Snake River to Red Wash and including <br />Thornburg, Dry, Scandinavian, and Greasewood Gulches (Plate II). Bands <br />of antelope ranging in number from 300 to 600 animals can be observed <br />` during severe winters within 2 miles of the Little Snake River. <br />Results of a 4-year study presented by the Colorado Division of Wildlife <br />~ in February 1974 at a National Workshop on antelope revealed that 78 <br />percent of the antelope kill in Unit A-3 occurred in the Little Snake <br />River drainage, north of the Great Divide, which separates the Little <br />~ Snake from the Yampa River. Antelope harvests from Unit A-3 in 1971 <br />and 1972 were 1,354 and 1,345 out of statewide totals of 5,013 and <br />4,163. Unit A-3 contributed 27 percent and 32 percent of the total <br />Colorado antelope kill in those 2 years. <br />About 300 antelope use the Wyoming portion of the project area. <br />~ These animals are a part of the Baggs herd (Management Unit 53). <br />In 1974 this unit provided 491 antelope hunters with 933 man-days <br />of hunting. They killed 478 animals--a success rate of better <br />than 97 percent.. <br /> <br /> <br />