That Kaibab Myth

Abstract

In October 1930 a Phoenix Gazette editorial, "That Kaibab Myth;' attacked the Forest Service's management of the deer herd in the Kaibab National ForestV The "myth' according to the writer of the editorial, was that the range was overcrowded. He claimed there were too few deer and that the Forest Service's liberal bag limit was allowing "a steady stream of game hogs" from California to destroy "the greatest deer forest in the world . . . taking away from future generations the same privilege of fine hunting that we have today." The writer was wrong -there were too many deer, and they were overbrowsing the forest-but his headline was better than he knew. "The