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Show WILDLIFE CHIEF PRAISES UTAH BIG GAME SET-UP Big Game Board, Says Official Utah Is Only State With Legislatively Establihed Democracy in action. That is the way Lloyd W. Swift, of Washington, D. C., chief of wildlife management for the Forest For-est Service, described the public hearings recently conducted by the Utah Board of Big Game Control Con-trol throughout Utah in accordance accord-ance with the new law passed by the 1945 State Legislature. , Visiting Utah's national forests on an official inspection trip, Mr. Swift made a special point of sitting sit-ting in on the hearings and the executive session of the board because: be-cause: "So far as I know," he said, "Utah is the only state with a legislatively leg-islatively established Big Game Board representing the interested agencies and clothed with ample authority to take all necessary action on the management of the state's big game herds. The public pub-lic meetings have been a fine example ex-ample of the democratic method, since all interested parties were given opportunity to state their views." Mr. Swift praised the "systematic "systemat-ic approach" provided by the Interagency In-teragency Committee (advisory to the board) in balancing preliminary prelimi-nary recommendations in accordance accord-ance with the evidence presented at the hearings. "In this way," he declared, "Utah takes out much of the guessing and directs the herd management realistically and practically." prac-tically." In fact, Utah is one of the few places where large deer surpluses have been reduced and utilized by the hunters rather than by winter starvation. Consequently, Consequent-ly, the past and present programs for adjusting deer herds to the forage supply on the Dixie and Fish Lake National Forests stand out as good examples of game administration. ad-ministration. "Continued vigilance in holding deer herds to the capacity of the range will assure a good level of hunting for future generations of i Utah sportsmen," he concluded, j |