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Show ELK COUNT IN ' UTAH AREAS IS COMPLETED The recently completed elk count made through the forest service and the fish and game department de-partment by two crack pilots, Art Mortensen of Ogden and Orange Olsen of the U. S. forest service, will give an inside track to future game management. The two pilots, who employed the use of a plane, took some two months to complete the count. They reported the plane survey is the most efficient and least expensive ex-pensive of any of the surveys. A pack trip, for instance, would take two weeks to cover the same territory terri-tory which is covered by the plane in a single day. Olsen further stated that counters on the ground scare the elk out of the area before be-fore they are within counting range. The elk count is made every three years. Olsen counted 547 elk in the Cache National forest, 147 on the Wasatch range (exclusive of Fort Douglas area, which the army has forbidden), 898 on the Nebo, and 671 on the Manti (Fer-. ron, Seely, and Muddy Creek drainages) . Mark Anderson, director of the Utah State Fish and Game department, depart-ment, said the recently completed survey would be used as a basis for trapping and for regulating the hunting seasons in the future. |