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Show Wall Gets Edition of 21 Metope From Wyo. i Twenty-one antelope, trapped in Wyoming and trucked 600 miles to their new habitat in Utah, have been placed in the black-sage country coun-try m west Box- Elder county it was announced today by Director Ross Leonard of the Utah Ssh and Game Department, fhe" telPe were donated to fshd 6 bythe doming fish and game commission. Thev "out sTf frm th6 B about 50 miles northwest of Lara- ' were liberated in good conditio: V and without injury. , The trapping was done in a trap L .which had about a half mile of wing fence leading to a corral of rope netting. The animals were j rounded up, Gaufin said, by air- Plane and herded into the wings. Runners then forced them into the , corral, where they fought them-selves them-selves out against the rope wall-The wall-The rope acted like a trapeze safe- ty net and just kept bouncing the i , animals back when they fought it- f i They were banded, placed in a covered truck and sent on their i mie. . """" or J-ara- The 21 antelope were placed with I Way- L The truck was specially prepared 1 j by the Utah officials. It was cov- I, ered, allowing several inchf iA around its base for ventilation. Be- f mg dark, Gaufin explained, 0"-' f l animals remained quiet, most of I them taking the lS-hour trip 1" Ing- down. Upon release the afli- jk mals scampered into the e;ige flat Br I Predatory control work in tW J I Planting area, according to Mr- Leonard, has already btvn com- Plotod. Coyotes made heavy i"" roads on antelope, ho said, t,lf i' , young, when first born, being Ms' ' prey for the prairie niurnudons. Oliver sites nro being studied f',r future nntolopo planting-", tr' Leonard said. TniVf Wn as Park Valley This s.te was selected because it' wassnnilartothe area from which aTak were taken in Wyo old railroad evades thC was on hand at Vh Partment-tapping Partment-tapping and stay thc als until the 1 m i' Gaufin reported thaTVL rele,nsud-Lnat rele,nsud-Lnat the animals |