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Show DralltrKEWS Salt toke City, Saturdsy, April AND 13, 1957 - . Vy0..iiiind-,-:Virt...iii-:-- Wyoming, as usual, will jump the gun on the rest of the moun tam t states with a Ntay 1 fish opening in many of the state's major waters. streams will not open In some of the Mates until July 1. Utah fishing season UI get under way on most major waters at the same opening date ; again this year. This includes NeatStrawberry and Scoheld reser-.with a May 18 start followed by Voirs, the Uinta Mountain lakes Montana with a May 26 kickoff and streams, Fish Lake and a ntt Utah with streams ;ohm,. the 9,00(lloot 1 - 1 , - 1 - day-Jutw-- - ALiniss-the-hot.- 1 vation.-- 1 Idaho Is Iast up with its June 4 opentilg this year. In Nevada the major hives waters. 0.- particularly Lake 5. 9 I 10 , Mead, have been open the These are the first. openings around. in each instance. Each state has year many special seasons and sporti-- , However, there are certain men should check the proclama- trout streams which will open l in tions for this information. many of - the counties on .'.'Many of the higher lakes And 114Iav 12. $' k , I 4 GUN by ROD-AN- D ,1" 1 . A ' '11,HACICL:-MIL4gt-- 1, f' Deseret News Sports Editor k,:t 14e OverManagi,ng The Deer Herds? Just Take A Look At Daggett Range .' If you've ever wondered what the good earth must have looked like before they put anything on it go to Daggett County and see. Something's been there But its gone. Sheep, cattle, deer and the abnormal abuses of man have brought it about. This country is winter range for game and livestock alike. Or at least it was until the users tincluding deer) denuded it. 'It was four years ago that we went through the Dutch John area with Harold Crane, Casey Brown, Dick Ben. nett, Ernie Hirsch and Bill Hurst from the forest service and others. 7 1 4 HORSEMEN - .:: I dla l'' I DEER GO YftERYWHERE---EVE- CAN'T 'GET WHERE HORSES N evens scans rough country necrr Flaming Gorge. Lloyd .. BRAVE TREACHEROUS This is ono section of riding SLOPES IN RED CREEK party which chocked wintor range. - ( HatcheryTour Set AO Put& 41.4, The oth,er day we went over the same trails teith Casey, Dick, Ernie, Lloyd Stevens, Bob Lati mer and a h,ost of others from the Fisk and Came Deportment, Forest Service and Bureau of Land , Management. We scoured the country. We rode and counted the deer. When we could ride no further we took to the crags, the ledges. We crawled on our knees to count the blades of grass in some of Odell Frandsen's reseeding areas. ::2 ,u v 28; .v Invited Sal Lake County Fish and Assn. officials have set day. April 28, for their ry(ial invitational tour of several the states fish hatcheries. It will be a chance for the family providers to get away from income tax headaches and an opportunity for the children to see the fish. ! Start at 9 a.m. Spokesmen Inform that anyone interested is welcome to join the motorcade tour starting at 9 a.m. from the Scott AN Mlle hatchery in Salt Lake. family Many will make it Ca 1' affair. Springville plant will be the -t- Fruit Bats Large it of the 500 or more kinds of t P'..1,: 14' V . -- in Dutch 'John 80 per cent of the sage has been killed and a 100 per cent of the birch leaf has gone. The sage Is the winter feed for deer. There is little else. But that feed has been used to its death. fg I x'A: AW0 I .4, .; LOOK FOR SEED IN GLADE REGION Out in the cedars there is little grass or ground cover just cedars. Some are palatable. Some are not. Those which are have been highlined higher than a man's head. Big deer have stood on their hind legs and "necked it" as high as they could teeter. Young deer, unable to reach the high food, have died. Pipeline strip reseeded as experiment. Fish, Game Briefs Colorado Season Opens Be Better May Colorado's Co. of Childress, Tex., 1,373a4res of land forming one of ttrekey areas of the Carey Dam fishing lake and recreational area 25 miles south of Las Animas. This project will comprise 6,840 acres, including a lake of 1,900 surface acres, which will Impound waters from Muddy Creek, from the southwest, and Johnny Creek. from the southeast. Negotiations are under way for purchase of other adjacent land. This much about a range ride. For most of three days this writer went over every tot of that country with people from the Interested agencies. .a.y..,..La.For..,,q,0.0.t,qrs Next months it vitt be illegal for any person to operate a boat on Utah waters without an approved life preserver for each passenger aboard. This ruling was made by Utah's five man Fish and Game Commission under recommendationa of civil and government The Day's Tab At night they sat around the Clay Basin table to tab the days findings, to discuss what should be done to help the scorched and abused land. They'll make their reports. 'They'll take their findings before the State Big Game Board. The picture for this area is not a bright one. It hasn't been for many years now. Maybe the scorched earth policy started back in the Butch Cassidy days,when it is reported there were 500 people wintering in Brown's Hole and with 25,000 head of cattle.-Once upcni a time grass in that area was belly. d,eep to a talI horse. It was a rich country. Then the great herds camecattle, sheep and deer. e -- - d Owmo The story was told whne Odell Frandsen of and Casey Bown of the game department got knees to look for seed where a gaohne clearing seeded. You had to get on your knees and dig to ..Q.p140::,9.,...:,.:,.,,... -- By KAY ALDOUS Deseret News Sports Writer We watched the Forest Service experts, the Bureau of Land Management, the Fish and Game Department men go Into action. They made notes, took pictures, studied and talked as they went from area to area. They checked their seeding projects, their enclosures. Warden Davis Promoted Flute-Garfiel- Boatmen: Now. Hear This y trout fishing vestment should be better than usual during-1957, probably the best in several years, according to Wayne R. Seaman, new fish manager for the Colorado Game and Fish Department Seaman bases his opinion on the two most important factors of a more good fishing season water and more fish. The Colorado department last year set a new, record by planttrout ing 5,046,140 catchable-sizIn lakes, streams and reservoirs of the state. It will follow up this record by planting more than one million more creel-siztrout between Jan. 1 and the opening of the 1957 season on May 18. Many dead deer were found during day's range chick. The Dutch John 'country of Daggett County is one of the worst ranges in the state. It is a textbook of abuse. Work is being-don- t it and bring it back in some respects. But this will be a slow process. 18-5h- ould - RIVER ROUTE HORSEMEN ENTER RED CREEK GORGE VIA One Of Worst Ranges Promotion of Clark II Davis to assistant federal aid coordinator in charge of habitat tmprovement was annOunced Saturday by Director .1q Perry Egan, Utah Department of Fish -Came. Colorado Buys Land andClark Poisonous Shrtw hasierved the departThe Colorado Game and Fish ment for 11 years as field rep :mg, bite of the shorttailed shrew is poisonous, owing to a Department has contracted to resentative and warden in the seemtion in the salivary glands.. purchase from the Western In County section.. bats distributed throughout the world, the fruit bats, also known as flying foxes, are the largest. It We broke open the bones of dead deer to determine the cause of death. Most died from malnutrition although several were seen which hunters last fall had killed, cleaned, hung to cool and then abandoned for bigger deer as bigger ones came along. What live deer we saw, an there were quite a few of them, were strong. They didn't look too fat, however. first stop. Then the car caravan will follow Provo Canyon to the Midway hatchery for a free lunch and wind up at the kamas ponds. chiefs report the hatcheries to be at peak production and capacity now, ready for the heavy stocking program Which-Wit- tlust. get tntier-way before the June 1 opening of the states trout fishing season. See the Fish purpose of the tours is to acquaint the public with the ef-forts made by state fish and game groups to supply more and healthier fish into all of the Utah waters to cope with the soaring number of anglers par.1 ticipating each year. , layagencies to cut down on the To be sanctioned a life preneedless drownings resulting server must bear the "Coast every year from boating acci- Guard Approved" label or stamp dents. and must be in good condition. Effective May 20, the law ofstates that there must be a According to Coast Guard are "legal" life preserver aboard for ficials, approved preservers each person going in any boat found in several styles, but the on any Utah water. And it fur- recommended type is the kapok ther requires the commission to vest or Jacket All ocean- determine the types of preserv filled going Coast Guard cutters are ers that may be uaed. equipped with the kapok vests. Cushion.type kapok "floater with shoulder straps ere ap. proved as are most of the air. filled jackets and belts inflated by carbon dioxide cartridges. The cartridge type must however, be equipped with a rubber tube extending into the air chamber so that it may be inflated by mouth if the cartridge hosts sold nowadays carry the kapok or cork rush. ions as standard equipment. The Coast Guard also rec. re- ommends all gardless of age, and all persons under 16 years of age to wear the ELM on their had been find boating. -- For es far as the eye Could see' the sage brush had been eaten back to six or eikht inches-- It wasttying 1urvive--4us- t stay alive. It would be sheeped three lime In a single winter and the sheep were soon to move on it Certain plastic preservers art as they dry and crack after a od hot pun- -, ot as they don't last nearly as long kacork or the pok types. air-fille- uw-tn-th- pei-T- again. When Cassidy's Wild Bunch named part of the Brown's liole "Bake Oven", there was grass. Now it's just an oven e canvas-tovere- d baked and beaten. Maybe Lloyd Stevens, district game supervisor for the game 'department hit the,head of the nail when he scratched his pate and guessed that the range' comeback would take a thneIf at all. 1 sun-idsse- , EXCILLENT ,1, OPPORTUNITY' d ' ms. , r ter-- But Lloyd talked In lie had worked with Bill Allen, rancher, who wanted to sell some of his grazing Fish rights,etcLloyd knew that for a mOminal-Bemtand Game Department could procure enough user rights to this critical area to help give the browse a chance to come ,t 1 r. o0-- v- - - - w;:e - a S Just TIME .1)of Oro .'; twrim;11 our,TO EATLET THETHORSES-RESthe ride into ,Dutch John, Little Holi areas T 1 4 1 ' ' nd under the plan when it did come back enough to ltistify other use then ouch use could be back. -- - ooto- N t t oopplioo Solos uppor;. ootossory. Oho loop! o Dowotows location. of pro4s-roble- ' . , for port000loto, snores tit yovomp IIHIN for rotoll ad of oomoortiol ototto17 Oleo he i - - - fails. Most - 1, - TRIMMED BACK- - AS HIGH A! Bob Latimer, Stevens check 1 YOUR HAT sh-lin- e browse. worttiog ootoosioo 214,, I Colt do II 1 4. ' - |