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• Improvement of big game winter range through land <br />treatment is very limited in the planning unit because <br />of rough topography and the scattered pattern of the <br />national resource lands. <br /> The scattered pattern of national resource lands in <br /> the planning unit makes it difficult for hunters to <br /> know where they can hunt freely or where they must get <br /> permission from the landowner. Many "no trespassing" <br /> signs are put up to confuse the situation. Many pri- <br /> vate landowners in the area would prosecute an acci- <br /> dental trespasser. Private landowners around crucial <br /> area number 9 purposely block access to over 5,000 <br /> acres of national resource lands. The same situation <br /> occurs on the following areas: <br /> Oak Mesa 9,000 acres <br /> Leroux Creek 4,000 acres <br /> Roatcap Creek 3,200 acres <br />• Current Creek 4,000 acres <br /> McDonald Creek 5,000 acres <br />Deer and elk ranges overlap to a large degree but <br />the extent of competition for forage is not known. <br />Extensive coal deposits underlay much of eastern <br />part of the planning unit. Strip mining would have <br />an adverse impact on deer habitat by removing forage <br />plants and cover. <br />The tracts listen below were classified for public <br />sale or exchange under the Classification and Multiple <br />Use Act, but they should be retained in public owner- <br />ship because these lands are crucial deer winter <br />range: <br />. NF-WL-III-S 4/76 RWM <br />