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Show "VI, r it V" ringtime is a period of in-"sed in-"sed activity for all forms W ife and especially so for "Life. 1,r these creatures of the it is a time for more ng about, for renewal of s through mating, nesting Ivfr- giving birth to the wild-"f wild-"f tomorrow. It is the sea-A'hen sea-A'hen game birds and ani-are ani-are so often seen as they pause along or hurry to cross the highways. For the motorist it should be a time of extra caution, especially es-pecially when travelling thru the rural or mountain areas. Pheasants and other small game are really vulnerable to speeding automobiles during these active days and thousands thou-sands are killed on the highways high-ways each spring. The same is true of deer and other big game as they gaze at night along the roads or cross them during this period of migration mi-gration to other ranges. Records Re-cords show that many more deer were killed by cars on Utah highways last year than were harvested by hunters 50 years ago. This tragic loss of wildlife is compounded by the human injury and property costs which so often attend such accidents. Thus, the admonition wherever wher-ever you may drive during the warming months ahead, please slow down a bit give wildlife and yourself a brake. The date of Sunday, May 7, has been set for the annual tour of some of the fish hatcheries hatch-eries in and near Utah's metropolitan met-ropolitan area. It is again sponsored spon-sored jointly by the department of fish and game and the Salt Lake County Fish and Game Association. The event annually attracts several thousand sportsmen and their families since it is a good opportunity for a family outing out-ing and also gives the public a chance to see these several fish producing facilities at peak production. The techniques of hatchery rearing are explained by supervisory sup-ervisory personnel during the course of an inspection tour at each hatchery. The all-day tour this year will begin at the Scott Avenue Hatchery in Salt Lake City at 8:00 a.m. The group will leave from this point at 9:00 a.m. and proceed to the Kamas Hatchery, Hat-chery, then on to Midway to view fish production at the department's de-partment's largest fish rearing plant. The tour will conclude with an inspection of the facilities fac-ilities at Springville where refreshments re-freshments will be served. Experimentation is continuing continu-ing again this year with several species of exotic game birds. The experiments, presently under un-der way at the Price Game Farm, deal with such birds as the Grey Francolin, the Black Francolin, Sand Grouse, White Winged Pheasant, the Redleg-ged Redleg-ged Partridge and the See See Partridge. Object of the work, which is a continuation of pilot studies stud-ies conducted during the past year, is to obtain eggs from each of the several species from which to begin production produc-tion of these birds for release into suitable areas of the state. Surveys conducted through Utah in the past years have indicated in-dicated that many locations are barren of game bird populations popula-tions and that one or more of the species mentioned above may prove suitable in these areas and thus provide a new game bird for the hunter. Like the chukar partridge, which now appears to be well established here in Utah, most of the birds currently being worked with are Asiatic in origin. |