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Wed., August 4,1993 THE CUERO RECORD Page 7
Outdoor Scene
RIT Knell
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Confusion over doe permits
Amanda Gordon
Scholarships awarded to 4-H’ers
a DeWitt County 4-H’ers, Amanda
Gordon, Kirk Kniffen and J.J. Fin-
Sney, all of Cuero, were recently
among 120 4-Her’s from across
Texas honored with scholarships at
the 4-H Roundup held at College
Station.
3 Finney, daughter of Gene and
Sharon Finney, received a $10,000
: from the San Antonio Livestock
Exposition, Inc. Her primary
projects have included beef, swine.
Bible school held in Westhoff
, First Baptist Church of Westhoff
Kid Vacation Bible School from
the 19th through the 23rd of July.
There were forty-one pupils and a
staff of sixteen for a total enroll-
Referee soccer clinic
in Victoria Sat. & Sun.
2 A Referee Soccer Cline will be Certification is needed in order
held on Saturday, August 7 and to referee at soccer games. The
Sunday, August 8 from 8 a.m. to 5 clinic for ages 14 and up cost $15.
For registration and further infor-
p.m. at the Victoria High School mation contact Patsy Kainer at 275-
I ibrary. 8194.
Dance registration
S Cuero Hermann Son’s dance
classes will hold registration on
Sunday, August 8, from 3:30 p.m.
to 5 p.m. at the dance building lo-
Kirk Kniffen
leadership, public speaking, foods
and nutrition, arts and crafts, home
improvement and veterinary
science. She plans to attend Texas
A&M University and major in
Agribusiness.
Kniffen, son of Billy and Mary
Kniffen, received a $4,000 Farm
Bureau Scholarship. His main
projects have included beef, swine,
entomology, sheep and leadership.
ment of fifty-seven.
Verna Smith was the Director
and Pastor James Haynes con-
ducted the opening assembly each
Gated at 119 E. Church.
A Mother’s meeting will be held
at 3 p.m. and all mother’s of dance
students are encouraged to attend.
J.J. Finney
Kniffen plans to attend Tarleton
State University and major in pre-
engineering.
Gordon, daugnter of Christy
Gordon, received a $500 scholar-
ship through the Texas 4-H Foun-
dation. Her projects have included
sheep, clothing, leadership, foods
and nutrition and consumer judg-
ing. She plans to attend Southwest
Texas University and major in
Marine Biology.
morning. Teachers were Jackie
Haynes, Elaine McCoy, Margie
McMeens, and Ruby Rogers. Tif-
fany Isenberg kept the nursery.
Carol Beckham was in charge of
crafts, Peggy Armstrong served
refreshments each day and Joyce
Kayser led the music. Other helpers
were Todd Mutschler, Chey Lud-
deke, Terry Armstrong, Ann Shar-
ron, Peggy Weston, Kara Gonzales,
and Raymond Goehring.
On Friday night all parents were
invited to attend a program, which
included a play written and directed
by Mrs. McCoy to help her stu-
dents learn about the life of Moses.
Pupils were given attendance cer-
tificates and twenty-three earned
Perfect Attendance Awards. There
was also a music program giving
the students an opportunity to per-
form some of the songs they had
learned during the week.
After the program everyone en-
joyed a weiner roast and water-
melon.
Because of low deer numbers in (3) a suitable habitat improvement
■ the past, hunters in DeWitt County plan; (4) accurate census data that
N will be allowed to harvest only one includes herd composition and
buck and no does (except by special spotlight surveys; and (5) allow the
permit) during the upcoming deer
season which runs from November
6 through January 2.
This moratorium on doe hunting
except by special permits issued by
the Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department has resulted in con-
siderable confusion to both hunters
and landowners. Many think all
you have to do to harvest two doc
this fall is fill out a form and send it
in to Austin and your doe permits
will be automatically issued. Noth-
ing could be further from the truth.
In fact, Lyndon Schatz, TPWD
biologist from Victoria, says that
only a few large ranches with
suitable habitat and an over abun-
dance of deer will be given doe
permits.
Throughout most of the county
deer are still scarce and, while
some recovery is being made fol-
lowing the drought years, predators
and low fawn survival still make it
necessary to try and build up the
deer population by preserving preg-
nant does. Lyndon is quoted in the
June issue of the Gulf Coast
Farmer-Rancher as stating that "a
two year study indicates that the
earliest breeding date for does in
Calhoun, Colorado, Jackson and
Lavaca counties was September 28
with the latest date being Novem-
ber 23, and the mean date of con-
ception occurring on October 7."
Since we are also considered to be
in the southern half of the Oak-
Prairie Regulatory District, this
would indicate that most does har-
vested in the past, during the first
six days of the season, were already
impregnated and destroyed the
myth that it takes a cold front to
trigger the rut.
So what will it take for a land-
owner to get doc pennits this fall?
If you (1) have a large place (prob-
ably over a thousand acres); (2) a
high concentration of deer (prob-
ably one per ten or twelve acres);
biologists to do a physical inspec-
tion before September 1, you might
be issued some doe permits
(depending on the size of the herd).
So far only one place in DeWitt
County, under a current game
management plan, has qualified;
another is being calculated; and a
third has submitted a request for
permits under the current Wildlife
Habitat and Harvest Annual
Recommendations. Lyndon Schatz
and Gary Homerstadt can be
reached in the Victoria office of
- TPWD by calling (512) 576-0022,
but don’t be surprised if you are
denied. Both die Central and West-
ern DeWitt Game Management As-
sociations fought to have the cur-
rent regulation and feel that, in
most cases, does should not be har-
vested this fall.
Part of the doe permit confusion
has arisen from the new automated
antlerless permit system referred to
as LAMPS (Landowner Assisted
Management Permits) where a
landowner can request a form from
Austin which he fills out, based
solely on other type of habitat that
he has. Under this plan, doc permits
are issued automatically, based
partly on a criteria that estimates
101 E. Main - Cuero - 275-2308
Connie Radford & Bryan Theditt
September 11, 1993
‘Belinda Junker & ‘Brian Malaer
October 1b, 1993
the optimum carrying capacity of
various habitats (upland woods -
One deer per 100 acres, bottomland
woods - one deer per 15 acres, na-
tive grasslands - one deer per 150
acres, improved grasslands - one
deer per 300 acres, and cultivated
croplands - one deer per 200 acres).
The LAMPS approach applies
mainly to counties in East Texas
that allow doe to be taken only by
permit and does not apply here in
DeWitt County.
Likewise, there is yet another ap-
proach (used mainly by some
counties in South Texas) where
such an abundance of doe exist,
that a minimum of 20 Antlerless
Deer Control Permits may be
issued to a landowner who qualifies
and pays a $300 administrative fee.
But for DeWitt County, forget
LAMPS and the Antlerless Deer
Control Permits if you desire to kill
a doe, and concentrate in the future
toward improving the habitat and
working with the game biologists
to secure a Wildlife Habitat and
Harvest Annual Recommendation
that would permit harvesting both
bucks and does. This is where
being a member of one of the two
Game Management Associations
will prove to be helpful.
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