DESERT BIGHORN COUNCIL TRANSACTIONS VOLUME 8 a Desert Bighorn Council A COMPILATION OF FORMAL PAPERS PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL AT THE EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 7, 8, AND 9, 1964, IN MEXICO AT THE AUDITORIO DE SOCIAL SEGURIDO IN MEXICALI AND AT THE HOTEL VILLA DEL MAR AT PUERTO SAN FELIPE, BAJA CALIFORNIA. THE DESERT BIGHORN COUNCIL TRANSACTIONS ARE PUBLISHED ANNUALLY AND ARE AVAILABLE BY WRITING THE . "DESERT BIGHORN COUNCIL" P. 0. BOX 440, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA. COVER DRAWING. BY PAT HANSEN. EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING DESERT BHGI3ORN COUNCIL April 7, 8, 9, 1964 Mexicali and Puerto San Felipe, Baia California TABLE OF CONTEWS Page .. - program ........................................................ 111 Group Picture ................................................... vii Opening Remarks Dr. Rodolfo Hernandez Corzo, Chairman ............................. xv John P. Russo, Vice-Chairman ................................... x.ix . pp-ppp- . ........................................- -- ... -- --- - .- FORMAL PAPERS AND DISCUSSIONS DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN George H. Pournelle, Curator of hlammals ............................ 1 .~DIXTIOSALNOTES ON PARASITES OF BIGHORN SHEEP ON THE DESERT GAME RANGE, NEVADA Rex W. Allen .............................................. 5 1-OXG-DISTASCE AND NIGHTTLME MOVEMENTS OF DESERT BIGHORh' SHEEP Gale hlonson ............................................... 11 IIESERT BIGHORN MAVAGEMENT NEEDS FROM THE ACADEhllC . porn?; OF VIEW U'ilIiamGraf ............................................... 19 RELATIOXSHIPS BETWEEN DESERT BIGHORLV AND FERAL BURROS IN THE BLACK MOUNTALYS OF hlOHAVE COUNTY* T. J. Mc!dichael.. ........................................... 29 iiO.+T SURi'EYS AS A TECHSIQUE BIGHORY SHEEP CLASSIFICATIOSS ON L.IKES ME.ID AND hlOHAVE IX NORTHWESTERS r\RIZOSA George Telsh .............................................. 37 National Applied Resources Science Center BLM LIBRARY RS 150A, Bldg 50 Denver Federal Center P.O. Box 25047 DP~VPY f'n Qn37q Section Chaiman John P. Russo, Arizona ~ame'and Fish Department DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN George Ha Pournelle; San Diego Zoological Garden, San Diego, California . PARASITES AND DESERT BIGHORN Rex W. Allen, ?. S. ~gricultur&Research Service, - .. University Park, New Mexico LONG DISTANCE AND NIGHTTIICE MO~~~?TOF DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP . Gale Monson, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Washington, D. C. April 8, 1964 Puerto San 'pelipe, Ba ja California Meeting opened at 8:00 a.'m. Sectiori chairman Rlchard E. Griffith,' Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP RANGE'MANAG~T- Needs from the Academic Point of View '. William Graf, San Jose 'State College, San Jose, California STUDIES OF THE RELATIONSHIP OFdBIGHORN SHEEP AND FERAL BURRO - In the Black-Mountains of Northwestern Arizona T. J. McMichael, Ariz'ona Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, Tucson, Arizona SOME WILDLIFE OF RAJA CALIFORNIA - Movie - Lewis W. Walker, Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona BOAT SURVEYS AS A TECHNIQUE IN BIGHORN SHEEP CLASSIFICATION COUNTS George Welsh, Arizona Game and Fish Department, Kingman, Arizona THE VEGETATION OF THE DESERT GAME RANGE - With Special Reference to the ~istri&ion of Desert Bighorn William G. Bradley; University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada : r,:.-- - -. Section Chairman ' : Richard A. Weaver, Niland, California a WATER REQUI-S Lloyd Z. Crow, Chino, California ~ROG~~ESSREPORT' FOR THE DZSERT GAME R1I.JG.E Charles G. Hansen, Desert Game Range, Laz Vesas, Neva(j2 BIGHORH FOOD HABITS AND RMJGE WLAT,IONSI-iIP IN NEVADA James D. Yoalcum, Bureau of Mnd. T.l.lann~enent, Reno, Nevada RESULTS OF BIGHORN HUNT IN MEXICO Dr. ~odolfdHernandez Corzo, Direccion General de Caza, Mexico, D. F. BUSINESS MEETING T3e Business Meeting was opened at 3:OO p.m. Chairman - Dr. Rodolfo Hernandez Corzo -- . Reports by the Secretary-Treasurer, Committees and Technical Starf Current Business Election and Installation of Officers EVENING SESSION ----- Se-c-t ion-Chaimm+ Ill c~~~~~~ K~X~L----- A DESERT BIGHORN STUDY ;- Part I1 Norman M. Simmons, Bureau of Sport- Fisheries and Wildlife, Ajo, Ari~ona . - STATUS REPORT OF TEXAS BIGHORN SHEEP Tommy L. Hailey, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Marfa, Texas STATUS REPORT OF SIGHORN SHEEP IIT ORGAN PIPE CACTUS Iu'kTIONAL MONUMENT Harold To Coss, National Park Service, Ajo, .4-izona RADIATION AND WILDLIFE Scott L. Reynolds, Atomic l3ergy Commission, Las Vezas, - r* ..-. Nevada . STATUS BEPORT OF PIEXICAN BIGIORN IN NF$ MEXICO James L. Sands, Ne3~Nexfso Depgrtment of Game and Fish, Albuquerque, Ncw Mexico BIGHORN HUNTING IN NEVADA A1 Ray Jonez, Nevada Fish and Game Department, LEIS Vexas, Nevada RANGE SURVEYS AND BIGHORN MANAGDENT Charles Rouse, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Vildlif e, Lakeview, Oregon BIGHORN FOODS OF THE DESERT GAPE R4NGE Oscar V. Derning, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and 't?lldlife, Lzkevley, Oregon The group met at- 7:30 a.m. for i Field Trip to the "Sheep country" east of Puerto San Felipe, with arrangements by Inz. Manuel Foglio C. 2nd Ing. Ramireo Garcia P. and others. TI33 EIKITH ANWAL DSSERT BIGHORN COUNCIL MEETING . INAUGUR\TION CEREMONIES AT MEXICALL, 84JA CALIFORNIA bft to right - Em-&ue lfichaus, Director General de huSsmo; W, Rodolf o ~erna/ndezCorzo , Director General de Caza and Council Chairrran; John P. Russo, Vice-chairman; Ing. Zanuel Foglio C., Agente General de Agricultura ; Ing. Eligio Esquivel Nendez , Gobernador del Esbdo de Ba ja California; Ing, Carlos Re Parra,, Myor de Mexicall; Charles G, Hansen, Secretary-Trea,surer ; Arturo Gonzalez. Jef e de Ofinina de Poblacib ; Dr. Ennque Sanchez Zaraz&, Fresidente de la ~ederati.de Clubes de Caza en B.C.; ' Dr. Elipid3.o Berlanga, President8 del Comite Mrectivo Estatal del P.R.I. The $!ver ram statuette in the middle of the table was presented to the Council by.'@, Hernandez Corzo, in the name of the Estados Unidos de Mexico, Department. OX Hunting, The silver plaque on the base is inscribed as follows: DIRRECION GENERAL DE CAZA S.A.G. VIII Consejo Anual Borrego de Desierto Ba ja California, 1-Iexico April 1964 April 7, 1954 .4guilar, Ing. Leoncia Perez Ahorezt, Mmuel 1sa:Lzaro Corderiz Alatorre, Francisco Ailininistracion Aquiles Serdm NO. 28-50 Piso, Mexico, D.F. Aleman, Ing. Jose Edificio Bertha 232 Oliva Mexicali,. E!a js Csllf. Ne xic 0 - Allen, Rex W. University Flrk New r-lesico Alvarez Torres, Manuel Guzrda Forestal y de Av. :?uszu? y Kina Czzr (~cenciaGnnersl) - Mcxicali, 2-152 Calif. Mexico Asserson 111, W. C. il-vendzno, Biol. Fidel Dept. Conncrvacion - Torres . de 12 Fzunv Silvestrc I- j Ebwett, Rezingld I ,: -.. I I ' Serlrn,-a, Dr. 3lpidio FzesSfiznte dz1 ?. 3. I. viii Msiling Address EOX 161 Idyllwild, Czlif. University of Nevada L~EVegas, Nevada 214 Spruce Sznta Fe, Nev Mexico P.O, BOX 156 Death Valley, 'Calif. kquiles Serdan NO. 28-70 Piso, ~exico,_._ D.F.__ ._._ - .._ - Mexlcali, Ba ja Calif. Elyj Nevada, . - ,- ,._ -:'! - , ;;2?$\. Coordinador de Cnzs Av. Zuazua y Minas en edo de 5aj~Calif. -3 - ...... -1.t . y53 J. s 6.. 3736 ~hinoAv':'.- .. -, Chino, ~a1ifdrnia"-''" Dept. Conesrvaclon de la Fauna Silveatre . Mexico.. ., . -...... ,,-. .: . >,..? L.-~l~~,i~~s~cm~~ >-2.-4. <. ,l -i.' :; $+f& ;C ,&. :;, . i$+:;:, . ' ."iG . Rea:einZstat idn. ; . P.O. Box 1032 Yuma, Arizona . -..? . - .. +<:? Name Agency Mailing Address Foglio Carrasco, Agente General de Agric. Av. Zuazua y Mina . Lng. Manuel y Ganaderia Mexicali, Fa ja Calif, Mexico Galvez, Pablo Martinez Av. Reforma 713int' Mexicali, Ba ja Calif. Mexico . - Garcia Perez, Ing. :Ramiro ~elegadoForestal y Av. Zuazua y Mina de- Caza Mexicali, Ba ja Calif. Mexico Garcia B., .Jose Luis Callejon Venigos 925 Mexicali, l3.ja Calif. Nexic o Goodman, Dr. John D. University of Redlanc Redlands, California Graf, Dr. # Mrs. William San Jose St. College Sari. Jose, California Green, Edmund S. 856 W. Grsnd Ave. Escondido, Celiforni~ Greer, Jack M. Templeton, Calif orniz Griffith, Mr. # Mrs. 2405 NE 25th Richard E. Portland, Oregon' Hailey, Tommy L. P.O. BOX 1228 Marfa, Texas Hansen, Dr. Charles G. Star ~oute1, Box 14 Las Vegas, Nevada Hermon, Raul Elizando Serv. Coop. de' Edificio Bertha Extension Mexicali, Ba ja Calif, Mexico Hernandez' Corzo, Direccion General de Aquiles Serdan No. 2f Dr. Rodolfo Ca za 70 Piso, Mexico, D.F. Jett, James E. BOX 383 Kingman, Arizona Johnson, Felipe Meling Calle Altanirano #64 Ensenada, &ja Czlif. Mexico 130~1232 \iickenburg, Arizona P.O. BOX 1032 Yuma, Arizona if. Administrado - P.O. Box 589 Club-Caza ' San Diego 12, Calif. if. Route 9, Box 960 Tucson, Arizona '25 10228 Gaulwey if . -. Spring Valley, San Diego Co., Calif. and s ncs, Fred T. - Sacramento, Calif. da Pide, John R. 'ge .ia - :ilch2el, T. Jeff 924 N. Morris Tucson, Arizona . -nia n!cn, Ing. Pedro - 7fri-ir rJ h*,Ehrique Perez Guarda de Caza Apo. Postal #39 San Felipe, Baja Cslif Mexico 6. 14 n3cz, J. Francisco Mexicali, Baja Calif. I Mexlco hzon, Gale U.S. Fish and Sf. Wildlife Service ' Salton Sea National Wildlife 4efu:p Callpatria, C~lif. Matlonal Park Eervice San Francisco, Calif. ZLIOZTJy xW 'O'd Univerzity Parlr New Nexic o 3ureeu of Land TI-enagement ,T- P. 0. ax1551 Reno, Nevada xiv Dr. Rodolfo Hernsndez Corzo, Chairman First of -all, I want to say that I have instructions - and a great sat- isfaction at that - to present to you the greetings of our Secretary of -~~ricultureand Livestock Inc. Julian ~odri~uezAdame, and of Dr. Enrique aeltran, Undersecretary of Forestry and Wildlife. Both of them wish you the best success in your activities. Last year, in Las Vegas, on occasion of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the &sert Bighorn Comril, it was decided, as proposed by the Piexican legation, that this year's meeting wauld be held in the State of Baja California, witho-~tany particular place being selected at that time. Later on, due to the importance of Mexicali as the Capitol of the State and as a border city, as well as the great appreciation showi~by local authorities in regard- to this event, this city was definitely chosen as the best place for the Opening Assembly, and Puerto San Felpe as the best choice for the tech- nical activities and the field trip, since it is very close to sheep co~ntry.