Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 16 | State Sanctuaries for Birds Planned

1 STATE SHICT1IES FOR BIRDS PLANNED Large Tracts of Ground to Be Devoted to Preservation Preserva-tion of Wild Life. OUTLINES ARE GIVEN State Fish and Game Commissioner Com-missioner Is Active in t the Matter. V.very county in the state is to have i bird and ((ante sanctuaries, where it will ,be unlawful to hunt and kill, even , during; the "open season," according to ! an announcement made yesterday by Fred W. Chambers, state fish and game ' I'onimissionor. , IJndor the commissioner 's plnn, which i j will be put into effort as rapidly as possible, pos-sible, between 250,1)00 and 350,600 acres i will be provided as permanent retreats for feathered songsters, game birds of Jill kinds, and animals all wild things , j except predatory animals. Is National Movement. ' In carrying out this state-wide scheme ! for the preservation and propagation of : ' birds and animals, Commissioner Cbam-i Cbam-i bers is merely enlarging upon the move- i' tnent he began in 1!U3. when he got the state legislature to enact laws creat-1 creat-1 ing sanctuaries in Sevier county, near !; Hallna, and adjacent to the Strawberry ;, project, in Utah county. It also is in , i line with a national movement by lovers lov-ers of wild animal life and sportsmen 1 1 for sanctuaries in every state in the 1 union. T)r. W. T. Hornaday, manager or' the New York zoo, is a leader in the , 1 jiational movement. ;' "This does Dot mean," said Commis- l sioner Chambers, "that hunters will be i prohibited from killing a bag limit dur-i1 dur-i1 jug the proper seasons in every county. Outside the sanctuaries there will be ' ample room for all the sportsmen, and the sancturies will be situated with a , "v iew not to curtail sport. Lands Are Proffered. i "Tn the sanctuaries, however, it will .be unlawful to kill anything at all times of the year except predatory wild animals. ani-mals. Land owners arc proffering districts dis-tricts for tho sanctuaries. Owners themselves them-selves are prohibited from hunting there after they have been declared sanctuaries. sanctu-aries. ' ' There will probably be two sanctuaries sanc-tuaries in every county, one for birds j' exclusively and the other for upland birds, game birds and animals. The bird sanctuary in Walt Lake county will i be in the neighborhood of Mill "Creek mul the entrances to the Cottonwood canyons, and the other will be in the southwest section of the county, where y. B. Stephens and other land owners i in sympathy with the protection of wild i. life have proffered sections. I Present state sanctuaries comprise ) C2.000 acres for birds and animals near : Halina and 15,000 acres at the Straw-! Straw-! berry project.