OCR Text |
Show FISH AND GAME HIGHUGHTC The state fish and game department de-partment reported today that thawing weather caused them to lose all but 11 of the 130 head of I antelope they had in their trap. The trap was set up in the Glade, a mountain rimmed valley valley val-ley about 10 miles east of Manila, Man-ila, Utah. The fence posts were set in frozen ground and when the. weather changed, the ground was so softened that the posts gave away when the whole herd charged one side of the enclosure. enclos-ure. The trapping experience indicated, indi-cated, however, that the trap was ideally located and of the proper basic design. The fence will be reset and strengthened this unimer and another attempt to trap will be made in November. Novem-ber. The ice has gone out of the Green River so that It is impossible impos-sible to get back into the Glade until late spring or early summer. sum-mer. Trapping operations at this time would interfere with the antelopes' fawning activities. The eleven antelope that were captured were planted on the rim of the Escalante desert about 15 miles north of Iron Springs. The Hardware ranch in Blacksmith Black-smith Fork canyon, an experimental experi-mental area for game feeding operated by the fish and game department, is proving its' worth in keeping elk out of the farmers' farm-ers' orchards. Director Ross Leonard said there were about 350 head of elk, onfy about 14 of which were big bulls, on the ranch during his tour. He said that almost every cow had a nine months calf with her. "We made the 6,000 acre ranch into a feeding place for elk in an effort to attract the big game herds from the valuable foothills in the Cache valley region. We have carried out a feeding program pro-gram there this winter and to date have managed to keep elk pretty well on state property, eliminating much of the trouble with private land interests," he said. A Mona sportsman, Clark Molyneaux, bagged two of the banded crows this week Nos. 271 and 272, in the statewide crow and magpie derby. The bands were worth $5 each. Molyneaux was hunting the big black birds in the fields near Mona when he made the catch. He reported he was surprised to see the band on the first one, and when the second one fell, he couldn't believe ut. This raises to seven the total of banded crows taken in the derby so far all of them five-buck five-buck birds. One magpie has been shot. All of the big money birds are still on the wing; the big crow, No. 234, being worth well over $1,000 in cash and merchandise merch-andise prizes at this date. V |