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Show ,, 1 , DEikci:t: NEWS, take City, Utah, Wednesday, December 19, Soit - 1951All ,a v t I. t Ak - .4 - 'Gar voilm ( v ikno I 1 al. 0- - .A0 ' f tN 4. t, , -- t. IP, 1410,, 6 ,', y . : , - 4.- ' ! A O.! t ( I , J t , Jg 4Nr .J., . . : ' '. , : ' ',, , , L'rv, -- e tit 4, t 4!'4 S . tApi,-- , C .44 A ,M144,O0 Nr4 ELK HERDS MOVE ONTO FEED GROUNDS AT HARDWARE RIG GAME SHOWPLACE The Hardware Ranch in Blacksmith Fork Canyon out of Cache Valley is one of the show places of the state and attracts thousands of tourists during the winter months. Over 500 head of Researchers ROD AND GUN by HACK MILLER Study Doves 1 And Rushes West Faces Mammoth TaskTo Put The Grass Back on the Mountain old-tim- i four-corn- n. Island's Recognition I - PROVIDENCE, R. L (UP) -Chet Nichols, southpaw pitcher for the Boston ,Braves, was named the outstanding Rhode -- Island athlete of 1951 tuesday by Words Unlimited, an associ- ation of the state's sports writ, era and broadcasters. Runnersup In the poll weri George Aral, of Proyidence, New England lighhveight Ins champiott, and Clem Labine -- 'of Woonsocket, rookie Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher. : : t. FIE4P040:T.J::..'$.TRfAM;s: SPORTS D. U. Reveals er The hole was one and a hall inches in diameter. "I also found many buffalo tracks in an position near where the beartuld fallen. The bear had evidently Can buffalo kill a grizzly taken some hair trom tell bufbear? falo; many patches of hair were Officials found." Yellowstone claim the buff has done it. The facts came out recently n..0m.i1W.,Q0 when Ranger Joe Way reported It Ain't Long 'tit Springt he found a carcass of a grizzly, ROLLER SKATES a large female, which bad been killed by a buffalo. The facts came,to light after CHRISTMAS! Ate- Way reported finding the dead bear in LaMar Valley during ;?.,- -; I r, the summer while he was on patrol in that area. "I checked the animal and found she halbesMbeatchbEL.-ly On both sides and the left 63 root First South side of the animal had been between the ribs. punctured This Buffalo Killed Grizzly art-shap- ed Part ' be-So- eon-'duct- ed months CO) :-. "- COACII ram COZ:3 Cairns START 15 him) , h thi whole family, or make a 'up party. Any number, from one to a party of any size, cm take ilodvantog, of these special round Itrip rates on Union Pacific's Strum. finer Cif, of St.- - Louis and Pony Express between Salt Lake City and Denver. Children under'five - 89 , I CARMINE FIORE ; Indmies: completely chin totem stem looming sea revise brooks if oecessory; check peestetot chervil, tete for maximum oatpot; mooch heetimpt with roper , . lubricant. ;iT Eastbound Streamliner CITY OF ST. LOUIS.. 1.v. Salt take City LOS a.m. Le. Denver 4 i Ar crier Ar. Solt Loki City ' , 1,44$ teb . op. 4 ter legator 01111Y Satt take City A?. 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AM IMALS:''-'-r.GUNS- ...:M.E..141ANI.cA14:..i.T...9y.s.:.:....: ?. , - (Plus Fsdonst Tend k:E.,,ts,,-- , RCIIII3 TRIP (- vz prepared te keep We winter? ALP :nCiTtlVE2 saltgran and alkali bulrush were present but little used. There were 2606 young ducks raised in thestudy area, or an average of 1490 per 100 habitat acres. Mallards produced 980 young per 100 acres; cimiaMon teal, 1.1 per acre; redhead, 2.7 per acre, and ruddy duck, ,0.6 per acre. your battery up 0 DELIVErt SALT LAggd CITY marsh. This concentration of mallard, cinnamon teal, redhead and ruddy duck nests represents 360 nests per 100 habitat acres. Twenty-liv- e nests were found in one acre of 01- neyrs bulrush. of the nests Nearly two-thirwere found in hardstem bulrush and nearly one-thir- d in Olneyrs bulrush. Cattail cane, h rust leeetetot and :1111 : 174-ac- re MO PE( DETWEEll SALT LAILE CITY 731 NISTS SITDIZD A total of 731 nests were located, of which 630 were studied in detail, on the - - get749 0 t'17 Study in tKnudson' Marsh, Salt1 Lake Valley." This project was under the supervision of the Utah Cooperative Wildlife .Research unit, which has its headquarters at USAC. TvHIS VI. the state's winter range and feed problem in this par. ticular area The ranch raises its own hay for the animali two-ye- Blue Ribbon FIGHT TOIIITE CHIO VE JAR For Feeki Show - - , HANDWRITING ON THE WALL The handwriting has been on the will for a long time. It's high time we were paying a little attention to it Re gudless of who or what denuded the rangelands of this area. the ugly fact remains that something must be done. Just what this something is has already been deter.- rained. But the wheels turn slowly when people pause to talk blame,. This is a matter for everyonesportsmen, cattleand sheep interests, Forest Serviceeveryonet And while everyone is getting his motor hotabout who abused what range and why, we hope that the interests and involvittl will look beyond the soil sins west ever lacedthat the on with the greatest problem get of putting the gran back on the mountains. ' , Elk Turn up at Wafer Ideal Clardtvarre Ranch For Ducks, -- ' 7 elk and a few deer are fed on the ranch during the snow- in. 'Si isitors are welcome at any time. The ranch solves , '111fiti WELCOME RANCH-VISITO- RS m es filthy water. .WWW'It'OkO;;ZCLA'14;,111:: WOO:4.A. Utah's "little Jackson Hole," the Hardware Ranch in Cache Two important research proj- Valley, is again playing host to the hundreds of elk that each Ducks Unlimited's 343 ects have been started by the make it a showplace for thousands of visitors. men," who aid in checkhig Utah Cooperative Wildlife Rewaterfowl conditions in the Each year, since its purchase search Unit (USAC). that the animabi are on the Canadian prairie lands, reiort the this game by One project is the study of department, feed lanes. a' large increase in waterfowl the mourning dove, the first property hal'be Cbrne increas- The ranch is operated by A. ever conducted on the dove in ingly popular with those who during the 1951 season, a fact the mountain states. The other enjoy seeing big game on their S. Peterson, veteran Utah game which sportsmen who bunted warden and big game authority. this is the study of bulrushes in wapast season will readily supwintering ground. terfowl production. The property is open to visitors The roll call of visitors at the port The dove investigation is at any time. In compiling the 343 reports, during the, past several timed to keep knowledge of this ranch seasons show visitors not only GO AT FEED IIOURS Bert Cartwright. chief natural-frobird abreast of its increasing 1st for D. U. reported to D. U. Utah but from many other Best time to see the herds utilization as a game bird. states and some foreign coun- members from his Washington Utah opened its first dove the headquarters, that 1951 checked as well. They include in- - at close range Is during tries season this year, while many of clubs, school classes, feeding hours, late afternoon in with a 6.7 brood average, its neighboring states have been dividuals, and nature lovers of early morning. biologists highest ever recorded by the the several for bird hunting D. U. researchers. all kinds. to is The road ranch the years. Reason for increase was "ex-PRODUCES OWN RATmaintained all winter long and TWO TEAR STUDY ceptionally favorable surface ranch reached the is by turning water and weather conditions," Residence status, distribution The Hardware Ranch and and population numbers, nest- nearby property had suffered east from Hyrum and going Cartwright reported in his aning, predators and mortality, serious winter damage from the into Blacksmith Fork Canyon nual post - season duck state' about 20 flilles from Hyrum. ment. censuses, food habits, and hunt- south Cache' elk herd previous ing seasons are some of the to its purchase by the fish and the Xeelnen reports, topics reieiving attention in game department Over 500 elk Take a Lot of Line Cartwright said that 247 of the now winter on the ranch where this 343 reporting insisted that the study. The study is under the super- they are fed daily with hay Whales can dive to enormous fall flight of ducks showed del- vision of Dr. Jessop B. Low, produced there on the ranch depths. There is a record 'inite increase. About 135 Were the summer months. stance of a sperm whale unit leader, and is being of the opinion geese had indeer are also to be seen coming entangled in a sub- creased, but 112 saw "no by R. B. Dahlgren, gradfiere during the uate student marine. cable 3200 feet down. change." Billy 'Wingfield, a graduate student in wildlife management at Utah State Agricultural College, recently completed his master's degree on "A Waterfall Productivity he . WI.. "Kee-wint- The other evening we got wound up In the story pf the old outlaws, a book written by Charles Kelly and titled "Outlaw Trails." It was a piece about George LeRoy Parker (Butch Cassidy), Matt Warner, McCarthy gangs, et al. We have been over many of those old trails and talked to many of the who knew those famoue outlawsif outlaws can be called famous. The cowboy Outlaws, according to Charlie Kelly, and with whom we have made a couple of river trips in our day, came into this country with the movement of rattle upon the fertile lands of the western country. Branding mavericks was their business, stealing cattle, robbing payrolls, trains and taking the banks. sticking-u- p In that story of the colorful past we were Interested e grasses mostly in the range condition' Of the great west-Thp belly-deewas to The horse. soil a to be were reported top the best. The land was fertile and rich. Otherwise, the great cattle barons of Oklahoma and Texas would not have ,country, to set up pulled into the Rockies, the their kingdoms. Nor would the outlaw trails have been so well patronized. SAGE CLUMPS GUTTERED In the many times we have ridden Utah's great Manti Range with men who know their rangelands, we have wondered what that country must have looked like before us moderns abused it. It is apparent to anyone what will have to be done to bring it back. Most of the sagebrush, guttered on all sides, was just clinging to life on a pedestal. We rode into washes that we couldn't get out of without dismounting and beating the horses up the almost perpendicular walls. There wasn't a It didn't take a man with chance for natural a day in school to figure that one. Some of the mountains reminded us of the famous Wasatch Range above Bountiful, where the laterals had to be built along the face of the mountain to save what could be saved and to check the runoff. That will some day have to be done on the Manti and other abused ranges. We rode down Lowry Creek where the flood had killed all the fish and where the canyon bad been properly gutted with the great wash. This, it was obvous, was only the start What would the next floods do? REBUILD YARD BY YARD We asked the people who were making the annual spring ride what could be done by human beings to help restore the watershed, the grazing lands, the wild game habitat. We answer was written in every didn't need to ask that one-7-travine. in wash, every That country, and all others like it, will have to be restored yard by yard. It will take curtailments, planning, 'planting. Where the machinery cannot get, It will take hand work. The hunters can help with their fall planting of seed. in the But it will take some moving of earth, check-gatmountains. the around some erosion stops washes, The ranges, some of them, may come back on their own. It would take hundreds of yearswe have been almost that long in abusing them. But most of them will have to be worked all the way. This matter Is everyone's business. We can build all the reservoirs and darns we can get in our canyons. These won't keep the top soil on the knolls. And that top soil is our lives. 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