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Show Big Game Board Completes Its District Meetings The meeting of the Board of Big Game Control at Ogden Thurs-ray Thurs-ray night completed the district meeting held at Beaver, Salina, Roosevelt, and Salt Lake City. In addition to the Board of Big Game Control consisting of J. Perry Egan as Chaiman. Lee War-burton War-burton representing the sportsmen, I. M. Varner representing the Forest For-est Service, D. C. Montgomery representing the Horse and Cattle Growers Association and Don Clyde representing the Woolgrow-ers Woolgrow-ers Association, numerous sportsmen, sports-men, livestock men, and land owners own-ers voiced their opinions as to what the kill of big game should be this coming season. The final conclusions will be made by the Board of Big Game Control which meets in executive session Friday, July 21, 1950, at the State Capitol Building in the Tax Commission Board Room at 9:00 A. M. With few exceptions, sportsmen and livestock men were in agreement agree-ment as to what the game take should be this year. A small aggression ag-gression from Santaquin, Payson and Salina demanded the annihilation annihila-tion of the Elk herds from their district. The amiable disposition of the groups attending the Board meetings meet-ings could be laid to the fact that much more intensive study has been made of range and game con- ditions than at any other previous time in Utah's big game history. In addition to this, s the Game Department is now in possession of more complete statistics regarding regard-ing populations sex ratios, game and range trends than it has ever had. Over an eleven-year period, Utah has averaged a Buck kill of 39,786, with a hunter success of 54 per cent. In 1949 the hunters of Utah killed 45,386 deer with 53 per cent of the hunters getting thir deer. In addition to the regular buck hunt, there were an additional 15,092 deer killed in anterless deer and special deeru hunts, making a total kill last year of 60,478 head. Utah's antlerless deer kill is not exceptionally high, although Utah's game-range problem is older than that of most of the surrounding states. Our kill of antlerless deer has not been exceedingly large relatively. rel-atively. In 1949, 42 per cent of Wyoming's deer kill were antlerless antler-less deer, while Idaho stepped up to 46 per cent, and 52 per cent of the deer Colorado killed were antlerless, an-tlerless, while Utah, only 20 per cent of our kill was antlerless. |