| Show Save the Deer Meeting Officials of the Utah Division of Wildlife Wild Wild- life liCe Resources explained to local sportsmen sportsmen sports sports- men Monday that Utah can harvest about to deer per year and that is about it it Any increase in hunters will only mean a decrease in hunter success THE DEER hunters in m the state are increasing about three per cent each year and will probably continue at this rate rale and there is no way to supply the deer for this increase stated John E K Bud Dud Phelps director of Utah Wildlife Resources sources The range will only teed Iced so many animals and this Is why we must carefully manage each area to insure proper uses Predators are not a R problem in game management stated slated Mr Phelps they take a few animals but not many the limiting factor is t the e feed Iced THE COMPETITION of wildlife use lIse killed many areas and the of the brouse which is 15 the tho main diet of wildlife is much more difficult and more sensitive to revive than the grasses grass es Cs used by livestock Members of the local sportsmans sportsman's organizations or present were urged to attend at at tend the Board of Big Game Control meeting this summer in Price and present present pre pre- sent their suggested changes they feel are arc needed to insure preservation of the local wildlife OTHER PROBLEMS discussed at the sportsmen meeting was the effects of sage brush spraying on Blue Mountain Moun lain tain buck only hunts and shorter hunts The sportsmen were encouraged to at attend at tend the game rides and counts con ducted by the Division of Wildlife Re lie every year THE GROUP was told that the results of last years year's range studies studies' were not yet in but would be made public as soon as all the data was in and had been interpreted |
