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Show Seen Any Wildlife Lately? Take Stock of Situation Nov Seen amy wildlife lately? This is the theme fur National Nation-al Wildlife Week 1970, sponsored spon-sored by the National Wilalitc Federation. We in Utah may be moro fortunate than people in other oth-er parts of the United States. Many of us see wildlife daily on our farms, along roadways, road-ways, and in foothill areas. This es good, but we are not wlhout our problems. How long has it been since a Utah cutthroat trout has been taken from Utah Lake, or a trout from the Jordan iRiver? How many acres of deer winter range along the Wasatch Front are now covered cov-ered with houses and roads'.' Or how much sage grouse habitat has disappeared under the plow and from spraying of herbicides? Sportsmen are interested in the answers of these questions, ques-tions, but all citizens of th" slate have a stake in our wildlife. wild-life. Wildlife are good indicators indicat-ors of the quality of our environment. en-vironment. Wikirfe can't survive sur-vive in a world that is polluted pol-luted and neither can people. You will not see deer where plants have disappeared nor fish in waters that are polluted. pol-luted. Someday, if we allow all green spaces to vanish, ruin all waters and choke all the skies with pollution, people won't be able to survive either. Man's relationship to wildlife wild-life was recognized even in Old Testament times as evidenced evi-denced by Ecclesiastes 3:19 which states, "For that which Ibefallo'.h the sons of men befalloth beasts: as the one dieth, so dielh the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence preemin-ence above a beast ..." |