FOX HUNTING IN THE COUNTY OF GARMISCH-PAR TENKIRCHEN

After the disappearance of rabies after 1985 in the alpine county of G armisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, the number of foxes shot has increased considerably though with local variations. In the heterogenous northe rn part of the country the greatest number of foxes were shot. Tempora l and spatial differences in the fox hunting bag are not only a result of differences in the fox density, but also of the hunting pressure. In the hunting season 1991/1992 the number of foxes shot per km(2) rea ched an all time high (0.86) for the county. However, the hunting pres sure decreased this year as could be shown by a decrease in the yearly proportion of juvenile foxes in a sample of dead animals. The main fo x hunting season in the county Garmisch-Partenkirchen is during the wi nter.