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Show Utah's Buffalo Herd Thriving The mighty bison is striving to "come back" in Utah, having taken a liking to the region south of San Rafael Swell and northwest of the Henry mountains. moun-tains. A nucleus herd of 23 buffalo 15 heifers and and eight bulls transplanted by the Utah fish and game commission from Yellowstone Yel-lowstone Park to the Robbers Roost section of Wayne county in 1941 and 1942 has now increased- to 37, it is believed by David M. Gaufin, project leader, in a report to Director Ross Leonard. . Here is the record of how the "colony" has fared since Dr. H. B. Goetzman, wildlife representative represen-tative on the advisory board of grazing district No. 7, Price, urged the project: "At least three of the bulls are known to have left the area and all have probably been killed. kill-ed. The remainder shifted around for more than a year before be-fore locating on the present range. "In 1943 or 1944, all or most of the herd crossed over onto the south and east slopes of Henry mountains. "Twenty-one head were observed observ-ed on Burr point, believed now to be their year-long range. "Two bulls were observed on Antelope Flats grazing with cattle, cat-tle, and 14 head reported south on the Henry mountains may be in addition to the 23 actually observed during the current survey. They were in good condition, the range was good and no competition with livestock live-stock was observed. "An increase in the herd may be expected now that the buffalo buf-falo have settled down to a definite def-inite range unit." |