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Show flRl $lt'sYourWlldlife J if YsJhrM J By Garth Carter Conservation Officer J Next Tuesday, the 23rd of November at 7:30 p.m. in the Court Room at the County Court House a meeting will be held to discuss the LaSal-Blue Mountain predator study. Jim Keartge, the sportsmen representative; repre-sentative; Rodney John, a Utah Division of Wildlife Resources representative; and other involved parties will be involved to inform the public of the studies purposes, etc. This is a project sponsored by the Agriculture and Wildlife Damage Prevention Board. If you feel the desire to learn of this study please attend. There is a possibility that since we are local residences we can provide assistance dealing with the predator study. director of the Division of Wildlife Resources, Don Smith, was in Moab on the 13th at the County Court House to provide local people a chance to meet him and have their questions answered. The court room was full of people who mostly came to get involved in a big debate. The big debate never came. Questions were written on , paper then passed to the 1 director; this provided everyone every-one the opportunity to have his questions passed forward. At 3:00 the meeting began. Larry Wilson, the Southeastern Southeast-ern Regional Supervisor introduced intro-duced the new director Don Smith. The director then told a brief up-to-date summary of his life (work experience, family, etc.) after which he went directly into a slide series. The slide series informed inform-ed the guests of the operating procedures of the Division of Wildlife Resources. Immediately Immedi-ately after the director's slides series the meeting turned into the question-answer period. Some of the major questions asked are as follows: Q. Does the sportsmen have equal representation on the Board of Big Game Control? A. Instead of asking about representation, one should be concerned with how well it functions. Ninty-five percentage percen-tage of the decisions made by the Board of Big Game Control are unanimous. Q. How about recommen dations from the local conservation conser-vation officers? A. Local officers are to recommend game management manage-ment policies on the biological data. They are also to submit (separately) the feelings of local residences. Q. Why doesn't your office pay more attention to local CO. recommendations? A. Wildlife Management is state wide, sometimes local recommendations are modified. modi-fied. Q. What two factors do you believe are most responsible for declining deer herd? A. Hunting and weather. Q. What do you consider a successful hunt? A. With buck-only regulations regula-tions a 40 success is a good hunter success figure. Q. How do you feel about all the non-resident hunters? A. The non-resident hunters are limited to 20,000 individuals, indivi-duals, this year we probably had 9,000 to 12,000. More questions were asked but the main topic seemed to be the deer herd situation. The Director went on to state that it was his intention to provide the people the chance to respond as well as to learn from this public forum. He was here to express his concern and philosophy, and hoped public communication to his office didn't stop at the end of the meeting. -GKC- Although the pheasant and quail season is over it's not too late to bag chuckars, forest grouse, cottontails or ducks and geese. -GKC--In connection with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, KUED-TV (Channel 7) will present a series of five, one-half hour programs dealing deal-ing with outdoor survival. The first show of the series will air at 7 p.m. on the 2nd day of January 1977. Remaining reg-ments reg-ments of the series will follow on consecutive Sunday evenings. even-ings. In the series, Lee Robertson, Robert-son, division hunter education coordinator, covers the basic necessities of wilderness survival. sur-vival. The psychological problems prob-lems connected with being lost are discussed at some length. Following, in logical order, are discussions centered around the importance and technique of fire building. The series also describes the variety and construction methods of emergency emer-gency shelters, as well as surviving on natural food suppliers. Each show was filmed in Utah, utilizing food and natural materials found in various types of the state's terrain. --GKC-- Division of Wildlife Resources Resour-ces Fisheries Biologist, Bryce Nielson, works at Bear Lake in northern Utah. He reports that on the 24th of October a small group of elk, consisting of 17 cows and calves, were caught near the edge of the lake, their return path to the mountain blocked off by the highway. They took to the water which was apparently their only avenue of escape. All 17 animals, led by what appeared to be a "herd cow," entered the lake one-half mile east of Gus Rich point and touched land again three and one-half hours later on South ..,. .., i.-. i. m Eden point. The total distance swam by the normally landlocked land-locked animals was six and one-half to seven miles. During the three and one-half one-half hours they were in the water, Nielson kept a clos'e eye on the small herd. He reported that the lead cow kept herd on the group like a sheepherder, slowing up when members of the group began to struggle, swimming back to round up animals that were beginning to separate from the herd. The elk could be heard whistling to each other during the entire trip across the lake. The elk bedded down for the night on South Eden point with a herd of cows. Nielson kept watch on the herd until dark, expecting them to move into the hills after dark. Late the next afternoon (oct. 25), while checking a fisherman's fisher-man's license, Nielson saw the herd of elk swimming back across the lake to the side from which they originally departed. depar-ted. The group, as a whole, made the return trip safely; but two elk (a calf and a cow) were missing, evidently drowned. Local residents indicated that they had never before j seen such an event, --GKC- You need 2 Utah cottontails, 2 tbsp. chopped celery, 2 tbsp. I chopped onion, 1 tbsp. flour, salt to season, 1 tsp. Worcestershire Worces-tershire Sauce, 1 small bay ( leaf, 6 peppercorns, and 2 tbsp. vinegar to prepare Utah Cottontails -- German style. Cut the rabbit into convenient conven-ient pieces. Dip into flour and fry in bacon fat. Remove from frying an into casserole dish. Put flour into pan and add enough water to make a gravy. Pour this gravy over the rabbit and the seasonings and vegetables which have been combined. Bake in a hot oven for 45 minutes. --GKC-- I can always expect to see him in the field, during dove hunt, or chuckar hunting or duing the deer hunt. He always seems to have some legal game in hand. The second day of the deer hunt this sportsman of the week spent his day helping another hunter and family resolve their vehicle problems. Hats off to you William Hofhine. |