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Show Elk To Be Removed From Congested Areas ThroughState Over 100 elk will be removed from congested areas in the state to areas which have few or no elk at all, Director Ross Leonard, State Fish and Game Department, said today. The elk will be taken in three traps, one each to be placed at Fountain Green, Mona and Santa-quin. Santa-quin. The trapping will be done where elk are doing damage to private land and where their removal re-moval is necessary to protect private pri-vate lands, Mr. Leonard said. The trapped elk will be placed in Box Elder county in the Grouse Creek region, and in Grand county where the state has been anxious to start an elk herd. Other spots will be considered, Mr. Leonard said. Cottonseed cake, a successful lure used in the Jackson Hole trapping campaign, will be used in the Utah trapping program. This is not the first experience in trapping elk, Mr. Leonard explained. ex-plained. The state took 55 head of elk in 1945 and only 21 last winter. Loss in trapping elk is negligible, negligi-ble, the director said. The state has the trapping process down to where it is just a matter of getting get-ting them in 'the corrals, ramping them into the truck and then taking tak-ing them to the planting area for release. |