Show Fish Game Dept Reaffirms Stand StandOn StandOn On CUp Water Utah Fish and Game Com Com- Commission mission during a recent one one- day meeting in Cedar City re- re reaffirmed affirmed its stand regarding minimum flow requirements for fish life on the Creek lower Provo and low low- lower er Strawberry rivers under the Central Utah Project IT WAS REPORTED that department studies have shown the need for allocation of much more water to these streams in this project plan than is proposed under pres pres- present ent Bureau of Reclamation plans The Commission agreed to participate in the building of ofa ofa a new lake on upper Red Creek in Duchesne County The group agreed to the purchase of three new fish tanks a at t an estima estimated ted cost of each Including one for Whiterocks fish hatchery THE COMMISSION ap approved proved an expenditure of for materials to be used in remodeling requirements in department at Dutch John It was also reported that deer winter range restoration projects are continuing on Department of Fish and Game lands in the Duchesne area Construction of 18 16 miles of offence offence fence on winter range lands near Duchesne is now under under- underway underway way in a section known as Rabbit Gulch The land is a apart apart part of the Blacktail Mountain game management area SOME 2000 acres will be cleared of the juniper pinon cover in preparation for re- re seeding this fall Selected browse and grass graM will be pla planted Officials said that 50 of the money expended on this restoration project win will be reimbursed to the Depart Depart- Department ment under the Accelerated Public Works Act |