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Show Ibursday, November . . - Editor's Note: It's estimated that of the 190,000 licensed deer hunters in Utah, one in seven are women. And many women are licensed hunters for ducks and pheasant and grouse, according to toe Dr vrsion of Wildlife Resources. White Sulphur Springs about 40 years ago. But trophies weren't tile reason she went out every season. "We never hunted for just the sport of it always for the meat," she says. "With a family of three youngsters and everything, it saved quite a bit on the grocery bQL "I loved to sec the deer. But when I go hunting, I kind of forget about my sentimentality, because we need the meat" It takes grit to put up with hunting, to go out when it's snowor to wake up in ing and the black of night and make breakfast and hike to a pass before dawn. Baldwin did it, partly because her husband of 60 years. Ken, expected her to be there. And they shared a love of wild places, which led them in 1958 to found the Montana Wilderness Association, to help preserve that heritage. Last year, she shot a deer on a rancher's land. It was her last hunting trip. She is legally blind now, and this fall is about the first in SO years that she hasnt hunted. While Baldwin is hanging up her hunting rifle, more and more women are taking up theirs. The proportion of American hunt -; By GAIL SCHONTZLER Bocemai Daily Chronicle FlorBOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) ence Baldwin sits in a cozy chair by the fireplace, surrounded by a lifetime of mementoes. The walls are covered with her paintings of wildlife, Jesus, Montana homesteads and forests. On her upright piano sits sheet music for "Amazing Grace" and "You Are My Sunshine." She will soon be 80. She has nine grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. She smiles sweetly and talks about the elk, deer and antelope she has killed. "I always hunted with a peep sight on my Savage .250," says Baldwin, a small woman who wears her white hair swept up in a bun. "I probably hunted practically every year since 1934." She still has the antlers from a bull elk she shot near big five-poi- ers who are women, while still small, has grown SO percent in 20 years, according to hunter surveys "We never hunted for just the sport of it always for the meat." Florence Baldwin, Bozeman, Mont. w, nt by the VS. Fish and Wildlife Service. Some 9 percent of UJS. hunters were women in 198S, up from only 6 percent in 19S5. And in Montana, women made up 13 percent of all hunters nearly 50 percent higher than the national average, the 1985 survey found. Martha Lonner, 44 and owner of a video and graphics business, has been hunting big game for two decades, with her husband and now sons. She has with their teen-ag- e shot deer, antelope, moose and elk. She has hiked through blizzards and exhaustion, and wondered at times whether she would make it back to camp. or another. She grew up hunting upland pheromones. Believed to be the agents that guide migrating salmon back to the river of their birth, pheromones also can hook on to humans and tell males from females. Salmon prefer females, it ap- AP Sports Writer Record books LONDON (AP) show that the biggest salmon caught in a British river was a landed by Georgina in 1922. And the biggest shark caught off d the British coast was a mako hooked by Joyce Yallop 19 years ago. Ballantine and Yallop may have been remarkable anglers. But according to a controversial book written by a university professor, the fish may have been sexually attracted to the women who landed them. Peter Behan, a professor of clinical neurology at Glasgow University has floated the theory that fish, Bal-lanti- pears. "It seems quite possible that they could sense the sex hormones of women and be attracted to them," Behan says in "Salmon and Woman; the Feminine Angle". He believes there is an unknown, hormonal chemical in women that is transmitted into the water via the rod, line and hook and attracts the fish. The book makes no mention of sharks, but Behan's theory gets no support from Britain's female an- 590-poun- . especially salmon, respond to chemical messengers known as m YOU KNOWHOHCOUPETTTIVE "We're hunting for the meat It's better for you," Lonner says. "We use the hides, we have it tanned and make jackets, coats, gloves. I A mm ikv PAUL DUNN AUTOGRAPH PARTY DALE Friday, November 23!! Provo: 11:00 a.m.-1:0- 0 p.m. Orem: 1:30 p.m.-3:3- 0 p.m. CO 501 Felt 51 on LDS BEST SELLING BOOKS & TAPES! nnnrr n QEnmiii WnMWMH WWI M V I DomA OREM PLACE 103 So. 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She likes the camaraderie of a hunting trip, and it's somehow greater than the closeness people share just camping together. Up in the mountains in the late fall, she says, "everybody pitches in, it's a survival thing and brings the peo- She points to a passage in a book by Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet," that talks about killing the innocent animals of the field: "... Since you must kill to eat," he wrote, "let it then be an act of worship." Perhaps hunting is more honest, she says, than going to a fast-foorestaurant or the grocery store and getting meat out of a Stryofoam container. game birds and ducks with her father and mother in the Butte area. She still hunts with her father's JO-r-t rifle. "He never had sons and he's kind of proud his daughter and now his grandsons are hunting with it," she says. Lonner didnt try big game hunting until her husband, Terry, a state wildlife researcher, had her put in for a moose permit With rare luck, she drew a permit the first time and shot a cow moose. She found the hunt exciting, yet unsettling. For her, hunting became a spiritual experience. it happened "It still happens then and with every animal I've killed there is a period of time when I just kind of have to be alone with the dead animal," she says. "You see their eyes and you know that you have taken a life. ... "I'm a realist," Lonner says, yet, "I always have tears in my eyes and I just don't want to talk. Maybe I say a prayer and thank the animal for giving up its life for me. ... "It's all part of a very natural cycle of life. Someday I'll die and be put back in the earth, one way D5 Page Mim M to?wmm to paaH yp vMfo tartoinig Da ; THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 22, 1990 ';!' 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