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Show Transplanted Moose Movements Monitored The first project to monitor mon-itor movements of transplanted trans-planted moose is being conducted by the Division of Wildlife Resources on four of the animals which were moved last week to Manti Mountain from the Uinta Mountains. Radios are attached by collar to one old and one young cow and one young and one old bull. These animals' locations will be transmitted to Division of Wildlife Resources planes flying over the area. ar-ea. The study will determine de-termine whether the animals ani-mals are relatively sedentary se-dentary on their new site or if one or more of the age classes migrates from the area. Results will aid biologists to know at what age class moose are most stable for transplanting. trans-planting. All the transplanted trans-planted animals are marked mar-ked with colored collars so all observations will be reported to the Division. Di-vision. The moose w ere trapped along the Bear River drainage in the Uinta Mountains after being hit from helicopters with an immobilizing drug. Captured Cap-tured animals were then transported with slings suspended from the helicopters heli-copters to vehicles and moved to the head of Fish Creek Canyon above Sco-field Sco-field Reservoir. Each animal was ''under ''un-der human control" for only 4 or 5 hours. .Norman .Nor-man Hancock, chief of Game Management, said that the animals were healthy, agile and completely com-pletely recovered at the time of their release. They were given antidotes anti-dotes to counteract the effects ef-fects of the drug. Hancock Han-cock noted that the Carbon Car-bon County Road Department Depart-ment was very helpful by opening the roads that lead to Fish Creek Canyon Can-yon to enable Division pickups to reach the release re-lease site. |