OCR Text |
Show Director says cutbacks will be effected For the second time in as many legislative sessions, a proposal to increase resident hunting and fishing license fees failed to receive the sanction sanc-tion of Utah State lawmakers. Failure of the bill for the second straight time once again poses problems to Department De-partment of Fish and Game administrators in relation to the long range outlook for hunting and fishing potential in the Beehive State. "Without doubt," Department Depart-ment Director Harold S. Crane stated "the lack of income which the license increase would have brought to the Department De-partment will necessitate cutback cut-back in many programs." Such cutbacks may well affect af-fect the important range re-vegitation, re-vegitation, hatchery improvement improve-ment and waterfowl marsh acquisitions ac-quisitions programs as well as ,a number of other Department functions, Crane indicated. Bills affecting the fish and game code which passed during dur-ing the recent legislative session, ses-sion, have been approved by the Governor and which will now become law include: An act permitting the Department De-partment to pay annual fees to counties in lieu of taxes on Department owned properties. An act raising fishing license li-cense fees for anglers over 65 years from five cents Annually An-nually to one dollar annually. Blind persons will still be entitled en-titled to purchase a license to fish for the sum of five cents. Several other bills affecting affect-ing fish and game management manage-ment failed to pass one or both houses of the legislative body. |