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Show fish and Game News Holes Utah sportsmen received a special spec-ial gift from the Department of Fish and Game when another fifty two antelope from Wyoming were released Christmas day at a site in Eastern Utah. The animals were trapped by Wyoming Game department personnel per-sonnel north of Rawlins where they were loaded into trucks belonging be-longing to the Utah Department for the long ride back to ' their new desert home. Six employees willingly passed up part of the holiday period to take the trucks' after the antelope and transport them to the planting site. Added to the ninety-two head trucked in from the traps some four weeks ago, this makes a total of 144 antelope now planted through the cooperative project conducted by the two sister states. Spokesmen note that nearly all are young brood animals expected to aid materially in the Department's Depart-ment's efforts to build herds over the state to huntable populations. Retirement of two long-term employees of the Department of Fish and Game was announced this week by Director J. Perry Egan. They are Wm. N. "Bill" Jacklin, superintendent of the Scott Ave. fish hatchery and Fred E. Larsen, Emery county warden. Long range planning to meet yearly increasing demands of more sportsmen going afield to fish and hunt continued to be the watch word for Department of Fish and Game personnel as another an-other year rolled by. Such planning for 1954 resulted in the following brief summary of accomplishments : Major improvement projects at four of the state's twelve fish hatcheries, four of six public waterfowl wa-terfowl marshes, at department headquarters building and many other properties over the state. All projects designed to replace, repair and create new facilities to increase the fish and game potential poten-tial afield. , Continuation of the attempt to establish new fish and game species spec-ies with a view to further utilizing the land and water habitat to the fullest possible degree. Included were the growing chukar partridge part-ridge program, continued planting of walleged pike in intermediate waters, and the stocking of antelope an-telope in an effort to build up present herd numbers of this big game animal. Habitat . improvement projects, increased survey and experimental experimen-tal work in both fisheries and game divisions, and the addition of new field personnel in key areas were among other accomplishments accomp-lishments designed to better serve the sportsmen and the total conservation con-servation Dicture. Department Director J. Perry Egan noted that the early outlook out-look for 1955 appeared bright. He said, "Our program of capital improvements im-provements and long range planning plan-ning will continue. With the fine cooperation of the state's sportsmen, sports-men, their organizations, and the other conservation agencies the people of Utah may look forward to good creel and bag returns during dur-ing 1955 and the years ahead." Egan noted the very serious need for more moisture to alleviate allev-iate the present , serious drouth. He cited this condition as the only real critical problem in the present pres-ent range planning program. |