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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~ be near the maximum tolerable without any further loss of winter range
or expanded crop production. Additional crop damage and loss of
winter range will force each state to reduce the number of wintering
elk to a level compatible with the expanded agricultural production
resulting from the project.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department estimates that a reduction of
400 elk will be necessary in order to bring the wintering herd into
an acceptable balance with its reduced winter range and increased
project agriculture. This will result in a significant decrease in
the elk kill in this part of Wyoming. The Colorado Division of Wildlife,
likewise, will have to substantially reduce the number of wintering elk.
The reduction will amount to 10 percent of the wintering herd--at
least 300 head.
. The reduction of wintering elk in Wyoming will be greater than
anticipated in Colorado because there is less available natural
winter range in Wyoming adjacent to project lands. The country rises
• sharply to the east of Savery Creek forcing the elk wintering in
Wyoming into closer proximity to the agricultural lands of the
Savery-Pot Hook Project.

The project will interfere with deer movements on their traditional
route between Colorado and an area north of the Dolan Mesa Canal in