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Show Important Fish And Game Meet Set For June 2, 3, 4, IirS.LC Outstanding Program Will Cover All Angles Of Wildlife Management; Nationally Famous Heads To Speak One of the most important fish and game meetings in the entire nation will he held in Salt Lake City on June 2, 3 and 4, when members of the Western Association of State Fish and Game Comissioners gather for their annual convention. Ross Leonard, Utah fish and game director, is president of the Western Association, and has drawn up an extensive three-day program which will cover all angles of wildlife management from both technical and administrative adminis-trative angles. Leonard announces that such famous fa-mous conservationists as Dr. Ira S ; N. Gabrielson, president of the American Wildlife Management Institute; Albert M. Day, director of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Lester Bagley, president of the International Association of Conservation, Fish and Game Commissioners, Com-missioners, and Seth Gordon, director di-rector of the Pennsylvania Game Department, will be featured speakers on the program. t The American Fisheries Society will meet in conjunction with the comissioners, and will line up the program for the states' fisheries experts, Leonard announces. The partial program will include the following talks: Dr. Gabriel-son, Gabriel-son, "Reclamation vs. Conservation;" Conserva-tion;" Kenneth A. Reid, Chicago, president of the Izaac Walton League of America, "Growing Spectre of Water Pollution;" Gordon, "Conservation Education I in Pennsylvania;" Day, "Basic Principles of Waterfowl Management;" Manage-ment;" E. O. Larsen, regional director, di-rector, Bureau of Reclamation, "Are Wildlife Values Being Considered Con-sidered in Project Planning by the Bureau?"; Bagley, a subject of own choosing dealing with international inter-national aspects of conservation; Don W. Clarke, director Washington Washing-ton State game department, "Pending "Pend-ing Wildlife' Legislation;" Elliott S. Barker, New Mexico state game warden, "High Mortality of Game and Fish Directors as it Affects Wildlife Management," and Lloyd Swift, Washington, D. C, in charge of gfame management, U. S. Forest Service, subject of own choosing. Leonard announces that general sessions will be held each of the three mornings with afternoons reserved re-served for technical discussions. Wednesday afternoon will be devoted de-voted to technical waterfowl problems, prob-lems, wildlife management discussions discus-sions will occupy Thursday afternoon, after-noon, and upland birds and big game will be discussed Friday afternoon. af-ternoon. The technical sessions on fish, planned by the American Fisheries Society, will be conducted con-ducted each afternoon. . One June 1, day preceding opening open-ing of ' the convention, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service will conduct con-duct a regional hearing in Salt Lake City to obtain a cross-section of opinion concerning next season's sea-son's duck shooting regulations. Leonard urged all interested Utah sportsmen to make an effort to attend the duck hearing and at least one of the sessions of the commissioner's convention. "This will be a marvelous opportunity op-portunity for sportsmen and conservationists con-servationists to find out first hand what the best authorities in the nation are doing toward perpetuating perpetu-ating our fish and game resources," re-sources," Leonard said. Committees from the Utah Wildlife Wild-life Federation, under general direction di-rection of Verdell Ritchie of Charleston, president, will assist the state game department in entertaining en-tertaining the visiting officials. ' Numerous tours of Utah scenic areas are planned for the delegates and their wives. All technical and general sessions of the convention will be held at the Newhouse " hotel. |
