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Show "(ibia R It's Your Wildlife J I ; Sgoniervatlon Officer Every spring, conservation conserva-tion officers throughout the state schedule range rides. Usually, range rides consist of U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Division of Wildlife Resources representatives repre-sentatives and all the public pub-lic that can arrange to attend going into the field on horseback to observe range conditions. Big game concentration areas are usually target areas for these rides. Condition Con-dition of plant vigor, deer health from appearance and checks for winter mortality are of prime concern. con-cern. It also gives everyone every-one a chance to corner the local representatives for personal input into game management. Local range rides will be conducted in April. Deer herd units 30-A, 30-B and 28-B will be coordinated from Moab. Interested parties should continue to read this column as dates, places and times will be announced as soon as they are scheduled. gkc -- The Board of Big Game Control sets seasons and regulations concerning all big game. The Wildlife Board handles the rest of wildlife concerns under state jurisdiction. March 15 at 10:00 a.m. the Wildlife Board will meet in the division auditorium at 1596 West North Temple Tem-ple in Salt Lake city. The subject matter of bear, cougar, spring turkey tur-key hunt, private fish installations and commercial commer-cial hunting areas will be discussed. People wishing to comment com-ment on the proclamations (in person) should request - time by contacting Alton V. Frazier at 533-9333. People who cannot attend but feel the need to bring subject matter forward can do so by writing to: DWR, 1596 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84116. I encourage our local sportsmen to take this opportunity to have a voice in the management decisions at the March 15th meeting. gkc Recently I was checking over some older publications publica-tions when I ran across an article concerning resident resi-dent to nonresident license li-cense fee ratios. Twenty-one states were polled as to license fees of both residents and nonresidents non-residents for elk, deer and bear. All western states were included. The lowest ratio of resident fees to non-resident fees was 2.7 to 1 where a resident paid $13.50 to hunt deer and the non-resident paid $36.00. Ratios ranged from this low (Maryland) to a high of 14.3 to 1 (Montana). After examining the twenty-one states accessed ac-cessed license fees I felt the Utah resident was fairly well protected by our state government. Utah's ratio was 10.7 to 1, nonresident to resident. Only two states charged a higher ratio for nonresidents non-residents to participate in hunting. They were Montana Mon-tana and Georgia. This survey was current as of 1976 and again, deer elk and bear were the species involved. We also limit the number of nonresidents non-residents that can participate partici-pate in these hunts. gkc Tuesday evening, the 14th of March at 7:00 p.m. a "Gun Safety in the Home" class for women will be held at the Grand County Courthouse. Housewives are encouraged en-couraged to attend. This informal one-night-only class is aimed at helping women protect their families fam-ilies from accidents involving in-volving firearms. |