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Show 9 buftna, But 9 JtZOKX When all is said and done, too many people keep on saying say-ing and not doing. In the Mail Bag: The Milford Wildlife group for the past year has been very inactive. This group started out fine and had a large backing. back-ing. After the purchase of 40 acres on the flat to protect the pheasants, and planting of pika in the Minersville Reservoir, and a number of other sportsmen sports-men helps in this area, the club: has died. j All together this group held 10 meetings. The first meeting was attended by some 50 members, mem-bers, the second meeting attended at-tended by 24 members, and so on down until the last meeting held there were only three men and one boy. I only mention this because the wildlife in this area need help and they can only get It through organized groups.- All the 'street corner" crying "the experts" can do can't be heard by the Game Commission. Monday night at Fillmore, Region 5 held their big game meeting. At this meeting the recommends from cattlemen, forest men, sheep men and sportsmen -were heard. From these recommends the big game proclamation will be drawn. Believe me, "sportsmen" from this the Mineral Mountain area, you ain't gonna like it. Your voice was heard but I am afraid that the otiher groups at this meeting, who recommended recom-mended a special kill of 750 does, will be the recommend that will "take." You "street corner" criers take over from here. We at least tried. W. L. Myers, S. W. Nichols. I Dunno. The sportsmen always al-ways say we're killing too many deer and the cattlemen say we ain't killing enough. We've heard it all the way from Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania to here. " - Wyoming has found that an either-sex kill, and no special doe hunts, has done a pretty good job of keeping the herds at proper range-capacity levels. Maybe we started too late on the either-sex hunt and have to thin 'em down a little before we level off. But whether the doe kill is needed or not, we sportsmen certainly should be represented as strongly as other groups at all big game meetings, and we should be well organized and active, and if we feel it necessary neces-sary or advisable, make our ' own surveys and push our rec ommendations as hard as other groups push theirs. Wonders if it just might be possible that the $3 extra license li-cense fee has anything to do with the large doe kills in this area in the last few years. Maybe if the sportsmen took a look at the fish and game budget, and make recommendations recommenda-tions for larger appropriations, if larger appropriations seem advisable, it might make a difference. dif-ference. Seems like we've been reading quite a bit lately about the large sums of money raisd ' thru license sales. The eternal triangle: Income, overhead, upkeep! j Been a long time since we j saw anybody working as hard for free as those Lions were working when we stopped at the Beaver Race Track to see Doc Bishop Tuesday. Doc sure didn't look like a dentist, and his X-ray eyes were picking out every beer can and even gum wrappers under the grandstand as he kept his broom and shovel going. Sam Hickman was wielding a saw faster than he ever pushed a pen' signing an okeh on a note; Es Beeson was hammering away moving the paddock entrance, en-trance, and Vic Smith working to straighten up the inside rail. We didn't recognize all the workers, in their overalls and T-shirts, but if that track isn't ready for opening day, July 21, it won't be the fault of the Beaver Lions. You cannot lead anyone further fur-ther than you have gone your- ' self. A Father is often a guy who is working his son's way thru college. |