| OCR Text |
Show ul LI feilKll V heredity. Results: strains of pheasants that are more likely to run than fly; and quail tha that always flush to the timber. They get their name from fleshy haebels extending from around the mouth usually callic Game. 'whiskers", much like those Director Phelps reported conhairy appendages extending actual testing is being What's happening to quail and from a cat's jaw. ducted at five different loTheir bodies, as anyone cations to provide cross checM pheasants probably isn't herewho has struggled to skin thect on data received. Testing of dity, but environment. Quail will because attest, do not have may fly to timber pheasants, chuckars, and fish esthe that's where scales, the outer protection only real collected in September and cape cover is, and they find consists wholly of a thick, October, 1970 has been comi seem it out. ringnecks Maybe slippery skin. pleted but analysis and inrun more because so many to Spines protrude from side fins terpretation of the data is not fields are getting bigger near the gill and from the badk finished. and cleaner. What else can of catfishej. Those are a source haVe the Director Phelps said, "until do? Where's to cover the of they r?p?lrity additional information tests ate pronounced discomfort to hold them flush? until they anyone coming in contact completed and the information It seems that pheasants in with them; the spines are sharply TnO Son JUQn Record; we detercannot analyzed, heavy grass or weedy cover mine if any problems exists pointed and covered with a Monlierllo. Utah hold as as and secreted ever, just tight "poison", regarding accumulation of Thursday, April 8, 1971 A wide variety of catfish quail jumped in good fields Page Three mercury in Utah wildlife. " don't always head for timber if live in clean or muddy waters, The Division for Fish and it's better place to go. and are able to withstand some Game will be working with domestic pollution. They are the testing agencies involved AMERICAN as in hanging onto tenacious Catfishes as a group are among collecting data involved to as on habitat the most prevalent fish in the carp, and feed accelerate collecting of CANCER 1 live food of wide and dead memworld, represented by wildlife, preparation of samples bers variety. The whiskers help of one or more of the 11 for testing, and the SOCIETY 1 Conservation officers and contall of known families the cats feel their way to fishery biologists look for more analysis and interpretation nents. food items in the turbid water of data. than overlimits of fish as hazards as human du"As far to they check anglers creels wildlife health from Creel season. the eating fishing ring are concerned, we cannot checks help biologists to make this determination, " determine catch rate, size of Phelps said; "this will have fish caught and species, and to be a consideration of medithe relative success of shore cal authorities and we will and boat anglers. make all of our data availcenA more intensive creel able to the State health peosus is conducted on some waters to check for age groups, ple. " Division of Fish and Game tagged or marked fish, condition of fish, and the diet personnel are collecting additional of fish caught. species of fish for An opening weekend creel testing immediately. Upland census at Strawberry Reser-vio- r, game birds will be collected this spring to compare later three last the taken for their mercury levels with those years, indicates that anglers found in birds collected in the caught almost fall. spent almost 120,000 hours News from Nilo, the newsfishing during the first two letter of the Conservation De days of the season. During this epriod, fishermen caught partment of the Winchester-Wester- n 000 trout. Division, makes the approximately 84, accountobservation boats in that many hunters Fishermen ed for 78 of the harvest with are more convinced than ever shore fishermen taking the that years of shooting have bred new traits into quail and remainder of 22. The average catch rate for fishermen pheasants. The reasoning goes like at Strawberry Reservior on this: Birds that tend to flush the opening weekend was close and fly in the open . 68 fish per hour. This catch are good targets and are the is somewhat lower than the first to get shot. Therefore, catch rate of other popular waters. quail that fly into timber and pheasants that sprint dowp Determining accumulation of the com rows and never fly at all are the most mercury in Utah wildlife is the object of a project now ikely to survive and breed--an- d their behavior traits are in progress, according to John The envlornment Action Bulletin makes the excellent point that many people who attempt, fashionably, to employ the current do so in the mistaken assumption that they know what it means. Ecology is a branch of biology that deals with the mutuhl relationships among organisms and between them and their environmental; L e. , ecology is a branch of science. The word "ecology" is not interchangeable with the word refers to a "ecosystem"-whic- h community of organisms together with the environment in which they live. Thus, as the Bulletin properly points out, pollution dajn ages an ecosystem in the water, but it does not damage the ecology (it cannot do so, because ecology is a branch of science. ) Phelps, Director of the Utah Division of Fish and E, 81, give w . lax momey See us for Door and WindQW V Glass Installed LUXURIOUS LOOKING PAIJEUfJG Fuller1' It2 II LUMBER ft BUILDING SUPPlIIS it Monticello Lumber ; 587-2424- .. & Hardwire Jl First Security Bank Member First Security Corporation System of Banks RESOURCES OVER ONE BILLION DOLLARS Bank of National First Security Association Utah. First Security State Bank of Springville. Utah First Security Bank of Idaho. National Association First Security Bank of Rock Springs. Wyoming First Security State Bank Members Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
