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Show Ffsii and Gasne Hews Notes . . . Extreme caution with fire of any kind while in the outdoors this season, is again begin urged by spokesmen for the Utah Fish and Game Department. The present prolonged dry period per-iod has created an early fire hazard. haz-ard. With the season now reaching a peak for participation in outdoor out-door sports, the department is joining all federal and state agencies agen-cies and civic organizations in an effort to prevent further losses of vital range lands from this annual menace. During the past two weeks several sev-eral man-caused fires have already taken thousands of acres of useable use-able forage and watershed cover from the sportsmen's productive payrolls. Such losses mean less outdoor opportunity wherever they occur. Anyone going afield is asked to know that camp fires, matches, smoking materials and all other forms of fire are out before they are left untended. r Board Chairman J. Perry Egan noted that this year more than ever before big game hunters should acquaint themselves with the proclamations. He said, "The Board members have attempted to make a hunting schedule that will result in a better balancing of big game-range conditions over our state. To do this we set up several sev-eral new type hunts for the first time. It will be necessary for our sportsmen to know these rules and regulations and give their fullest cooperation to the total program if this goal is to be reached." New chukar partridge plants in Beaver and Grand counties numbering num-bering 375 adult birds now bring to sixteen the sites in Utah where these birds have been stocked by the fish and game department. It also brings the total number of birds stocked to 6771 in this continuing two year program to establish the chukar over the semi-arid sections of the state. Supplemental plants of adult birds were also made during June at five of the previously planted sites. All the above chukars were raised at the Price and Springville game bird farms. |