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Show Sportsmen given thanks for collecting seed A "thanks" was . issued by the department of fish and game today to sportsmen, individually in-dividually and collectively, who have aided in the collection of browse seed for use by the department de-partment in range reseeding programs. Field activity by several sportsmen groups during the past year has resulted in the collection of much valuable seed, such "as bitterbrush and cliffrose, used in planting depleted de-pleted deer winter range. Many thousand acres of such range have been reseeded under a joint project being conducted conduct-ed by the Utah Department of Fish and Game and the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Forest Range and Experiment Station at Eph-raim. Eph-raim. The browse seed plantings are made on critical winter ranges where the abundance or lack of these feeds are the key to the numbers of deer which can be maintained in herds using these ranges.. Director Harold S Crane said, "We encourage interested sportsmen and organizations to collect this browse seed since it is not available in quantity from other sources. Their work to date has been of primary importance in our range re-vegetation re-vegetation program." Crane encouraged participation participa-tion in this project and asked that interested individuals or groups contact their local conservation con-servation officer or fish and game office if they were interested inter-ested in the browse seed collection col-lection program. Would you like to reach the end of a trip with an unrump-led unrump-led look ? Take along fresh clothes, .stop and change at a service station near your destination.' |