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Show Big Game Board to Meet June 27 in Kanab In Kanab, on Monday, June 27, will be held the first of a series of five annual public meetings conducted con-ducted each year by the Utah Board of Big Game Control. This meeting, which is most important to sportsmen of Southern Utah, first was announced for Kanosh, possibly due to a confusion- of the names of the two communities. The only other meeting scheduled sched-uled for Southern Utah is that at Richfield on June 28. In both cases, the meetings are to be held in the courthouse and to begin at 8 a.m. Board Chairman Harold S. Crane reminds sportsmen and others that these annuar meetings are held for the purpose of gathering big game and range information to be evaluated by the board in setting the 1960 big game hunts. One such meeting is held in each of the state's five fish and game commissioner commis-sioner districts. Crane states anyone is welcome to attend, (whether just to observe or to submit factual information andor recommendations for these hunts. Procedure at the meetings calls for reading of the recommendations recommenda-tions by the Interagency Committee Commit-tee for each big game herd in the district concerned. This committee commit-tee is composed of field and headquarters head-quarters personnel of the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Manage-ment, and Department of Fish and Game. As these recommendations for each herd are read and submitted, the meetings then are opened to rcommendations from anyone attending. at-tending. At an executive session following follow-ing the public meetings, board members then study and consolidate consoli-date both the public and committee commit-tee recommendations as they set final regulations for the big game seasons. Members of the five-man board are Mr. Crane, Welby Aagard, William Wil-liam D. Hurst, Othel Pay, and J. Wells Robins, according to the release.. |