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Show Utah Hunter Safety Proqram Lauded Utah's hunter safety program won honorable mention in competition for the Annual Hunter Safety Award presented by the International Association As-sociation of Game, Fish missioners and donated by the National Rifle Association. The Missouri Department Depart-ment of Conservation was selected as the agency ag-ency in the United State and Canada contributing the most in the field of hunter safety training for 1973. Missouri was selected se-lected from among 26 states and Canadian provinces pro-vinces competing for the annual award. Honorable mention also went to California, Ca-lifornia, Kansas, Manitoba, Mani-toba, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Caro-lina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Since the first hunter safety training program was initiated in New York in 1950, all states and Canadian provinces have adopted similar programs pro-grams of firearms safety safe-ty training. At present, 18 states and three Canadian Can-adian provinces have legislation le-gislation reguiring such training, while those remaining re-maining offer education on a voluntary basis either through a state agency or direct liaison with the NRA. As of July, 1973, almost al-most seven and one-half million students have been trained in hunter safety programs, with one-half million trained in the first six months of this year. |