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Show Fish and Game News Notes . . . Preliminary survey and engineering engin-eering for a major construction project on the public shooting grounds at the north end of the i Great Salt Lake are now going forward as planned. Actual work there is expected to get underway in the near future. Recent completion of a two year building and rehabilitation I project at the Clear Lake refuge in Millard county makes a total I of four of the six state-owned migratory mi-gratory bird hunting areas that already have or will have received major improvements resulting in enlarged and improved facilities before the end of 1953. Rock Island in Utah Lake has ! been set aside as a wildlife management man-agement area under a federal order or-der recently signed by Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay. The action resulted from an application ap-plication for such use made by the Utah Fish and Game Depart- ment three years ago. It had been urged by many leading biologists and conservationists. Under the action management , of the island is reserved to the state for public use. It may be administered as a wildlife refuge, public shooting ground, game management area, or a combination combina-tion of all three. "Improved fishing at Bear Lake in Rich county should result from a recent meeting held there at La-kota La-kota Beach." This was the opinion opin-ion of J. Perry Egan, director of the Utah Fish and Game department. depart-ment. Egan and Tom Murray, Idaho director of Fish and Game, headed department men attending from both-states. Others at the meeting included leaders of sportsmen's organizations from Northern Utah and Southern Idaho, biologists from the Logan College, and representatives rep-resentatives from interested civic organizations. The cooperative research program pro-gram that has been conducted by both states will be continued. More legal size and other trout will be planted this year with Utah and Idaho contributing equal numbers. Fishermen are urged to return tags from any fish taken at the |