Page 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 8, 1966 THE BATTAU^^N
Project Reveals Deer
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Deer, like some humans, eat
midnight snacks.
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Texas A&M’s wildlife science and
physics departments to automate
deer census taking has produced
this, and other bits of informa
tion about the animal.
Dr. Dayle Sittler of physics and
Jack Inglis, instructor in wildlife
science and project director, co
operate on the project. It seeks to
tie in data from deer ranging
habits gleaned from radio direc
tion finding equipment and a
counting device to produce a
means of making deer population
counts.
“Wildlife biologists spend 20
per cent of their time walking
deer census lines,” Inglis com
mented. “We’re trying to auto
mate this by counting how many
deer crawl under a fence.”
A delicate switch attached to
the bottom strands of a barbed
wire fence is wired to a recorder.
Timed to turn on every two
hours, the tape recorder is fed a
pulse for every deer (or any oth
er animal) that crawls under the
fence and trips the switch.
The apparatus designed by Sit-
TTI Engineer Heads
National Committee
M. D. Shelby, research engi
neer for the Texas Transporta
tion Institute, has been appoint
ed chairman of the American
Concrete Institute’s Committee
325, “Structural Design of Con
crete Pavements for Highways
and Airports.”
Shelby will attend the 62nd an
nual meeting of ACI in Philadel
phia March 7-11.
tier is arranged so that the time
(within two hours) of passage
and number of deer per group
can be determined.
Fence count data is then co
related with ranging habits de
termined from neckband radios
placed on deer to get population
figures.
The switch, which will work
only on strand-wire fences, is the
weak spot in the system.
“We’re testing it and can learn
a lot about deer when we get the
bugs out,” Inglis said.
Sittler indicated an additional
40 of the fist-size switches are
being ordered. Ten have been in
use on the Welder Wildlife Foun
dation Refuge near Sinton. The
Welder Foundation, Texas Parks
and Wildlife Department and
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station are supporting the study.
Data collected already indi
cates deer feed and move around
at other times than dawn and
dusk, Sittler said.
“Our equipment shows they
are on the move quite a bit
around midnight,” the physicist
stated.
“From group counts, we’ve
been able to tell a lot about deer
traffic in a particular location,”
Inglis went on. “Deer become so
cially aggressive in the summer
and split up into single animal
groups.”
“They get back together in the
fall, when the group counts run
from two to five,” he added. “We
have noted as many as 12 deer in
a single group.’
— Job
WEDNESDAY
Los Angeles County, California
— civil engineering.
Olin Mathieson Chemical Cor
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Standard Oil Company of Cali
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TEAGUE, GENERAL CONFER AT FETE
College Station Cong. Olin E. Teague chats dinner that attracted more than 2,000 gov-
with Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John Me- ernment officials and businessmen. (City
Connell at a dinner held recently at Wash- News Bureau Photo)
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Adkins To Serve
On Highway Board
A Texas A&M researcher in
economic aspects of transporta
tion will serve on national ad
visory panels for highway re
search.
Dr. William G. Adkins, re
search economist of the Texas
Transportation Institute and pro
fessor of transportation econo
mics at Texas A&M, has been
elected to the Register of the
National Cooperative Highway
Research Program, Highway Re
search Board, National Academy
of Sciences. He participated in
the first 1966 meeting of the
Register last week in Washing
ton, D. C.
Members of the Register serve
on various advisory panels which
make recommendations regard
ing policy decisions and proce
dures for the HRB Highway Re
search Program. Advisory panel
functions are to organize re
search, establish research ob
jectives, review proposals, de
termine placement of projects, in
vestigate progress, provide ad
vice, and evaluate accomplish
ment.
Adkins earned B.S., M.S., and
Ph.D. degrees in agricultural eco
nomics at Texas A&M. He is
the author of numerous publica
tions dealing with land tenure,
land values, and agricultural
labor and population, and of re
search papers dealing with econo
mic affects of highway improve
ment.
His most recent accomplish
ments in research have dealt with
projects at TTI involving evalua
tion of highway travel time of
commercial vehicles. He is as
sociate head of the Institute’s
department of transportation eco
nomics.
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WEDNESDAY
Aggie Wives Bridge Club will
not meet as originally announced.
THURSDAY
....Pasadena Hometown Club will
meet at 6 p.m. in front of Hen
derson Hall and behind dorm 12.
English Scholar
To Visit Feb. 17-25
Peter H. Merritt, Nuffield
Traveling Scholar from England,
will visit Texas A&M Feb. 17-25.
Merritt is a graduate from the
Essex Institute of Agriculture in
England.
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