Show Wild Fowl Leaders Discuss Conservation Plans I 5 5 7 2 4 7 A S o 55 4 S 'S 45 5 I Y h 1 41 i s S 4 kL John C. C Huntington president of More Game Birds foundation left Thomas C. C Main general manager of Ducks Unlimited Canada center and George W. W Snyder Utah-New Utah Mexico chairman of Ducks Unlimited check over the camera projector before showing Utah sportsmen the work of water fowl conservation in Canada Pictures Show Struggle Against Duck Enemies By JOHN MOONEY The proof of the pudding is in the tasting which may have accounted for Thomas C. C Mains Main's success at the Newhouse hotel Wednesday night when he gave Utah sportsmen a taste via the motion picture camera of the conservation work being done by Ducks Unlimited in the Canadian lakes and marshes Speaking before potential water fowl hunters Main who is general manager of Ducks Unlimited Canada reiterated the statement that hed he'd given The Telegram a week earlier in an exclusive exclusive ex ex- interview that interview that at least 70 per er cent of the potential duck crop dies before It ever faces the guns of hunters Backing up his statements and figures with pictured proof Main explained how Ducks Unlimited and kindred organizations with very limited capital have taken steps which boosted the duck population population pop pop- of North America some since 1938 Causes Listed Listing the four chief causes for forthe forthe forthe the 70 per cent mortality in the duck crop as 1 2 crows and magpies 3 jackfish or northern pike and 4 fire Main described in m detail just how Ducks Unlimited uses volunteer labor to cope with these evils Lakes and streams is are dammed and marshes drained to combat drouth campaigns for eradicating magpies and crows are carried earned out jackfish ish are either seined or penned from the nesting grounds of the ducks while fire lanes and the clearing of underbrush cuts down on the fire hazard Main reported that estimates had placed the percentage of damage from crows and magpies at 30 per percent percent percent cent of the total 70 per cent of the ducks which die while the jackfish jackfish jackfish jack- jack fish take another 34 per cent Other detriments to a big duck crop according to Main are Indians Indians Indians In In- and who steal ggs eggs and small predatory beasts like like the skunk and The most important factor in making Ducks Unlimited the success success success suc suc- cess it is said Main is not the fine cooperation of American sportsmen or the backing of the C Canadian government but its it's the whole-hearted whole work and spirit of conservation of the Canadian people people peo peo- pie Why most of our labor laborIs Is of the volunteer variety because the natives know that the ducks will die off oft in a few years if nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing is done to aid them We rent most of our land in grants ol of thousands of ot acres at a nominal rental of ot 1 a year while the rest Is given us by the provinces provinces provinces inces When we need a dam built we supply some some of the materials materials ma ma- but the natives do all the labor and furnish all the horses and r rough ugh equipment Many Volunteers Main added that some men are engaged in this conservation work with no salary I Also on oct the program were John C. C Huntington president of More Game Birds foundation and George W. W Snyder Utah-New Utah Mexico Ducks Unlimited chairman Both Main and Huntington left Salt Lake City early Thursday morning for a speaking g trip in Texas |