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Show i Thursday, August 2, 976 1 1 Weed coaches Goose banding project conducted for football There never seems to be enough coaches to go around, protected t'nlike baseball and basketball one or two the by and equipment best of through sound conditioning, they are taught how to protect coaches cannot adequately themselves from harm and handle a football team of 20 or accident. to meager youngsters. The WFFL football is just for season only lasts six weeks, you, if you are between the but there is hardly enough ages of 8 and 15 and have a time to teach boys sound desire to play. Boys play in fundamentals, and how to their own weight and age operate as a team. They group. They learn team play must practice five days a and disciple and they learn the basic fundamentals of week and play on Saturday. The progress, the youngsters football. make in those six weeks is There is still time for you remarkable to say the least. so get to your Every year there are in- City Recreation center now. juries, but they are few and FOOTBALL BEGINS THIS far between. The boys are WEEK. game hunting more difficult this year than in previous years. It also portrays a general hunting picture for 1975 that was somewhat less successful than 1974. Ring-necke- Pheasant d -- Harvest statistics for 1974 reflected the low pheasant populations occurring throughout most of the state. Both harvest and the number of participating hunters declined. Hunter success, however, improved slightly on a daily basis. The present trend of the pheasant population continues to reflect habitat deterioration. In 1975 there were 77,566 hunters in the field after ringnecks. Total harvest was 143,783 birds. That averaged slightly less than two pheasants per hunter ti.85) and is the harvest since 1948. Usually cold spring temperatures delayed both the planting and development of farm crops, which in turn delayed pheasant nesting and affected overall populations. The later dates of crop observability. However, a follow-usurvey also indicated that production and density of pheasants per mile p was lower than in 1974. Mourning Doves - 1975 produced a record harvest of mourning doves in Utah. The late spring and apparent late nesting combined with generally mild August and hindered annual roadside counts by reducing Jensen, Division Reservoir and Neponset Reservoir were banding sites this year. They are all used regularly as annual moulting areas. These areas also serve as nesting sites prior to the moult. In this year's banding activities, the Division geese. There were 1,741 new leg bands attached to unbanded birds and 179 retraps captured. In an effort to expand the Canada states goose breeding population and to utilize existing habitat that is suitable for geese, 136 young geese were transplanted to trapped 1,920 Bird Migratory early September weather, delayed subsequent migration and a Labor Day opening were reported as being responsible for the harvest. Total hunters, hunter days afield and hunter, success were all increased over 1974. Animal higher-than-usu- Hunters numbering 2 m25,000 1 1 deaths 37,378 harvested 420,308 doves while averaging 11.24 birds for the Three hundred season. thousand and (306,076) seventy-si- hunters took an 00 of 9.0 birds in 1974. average Reports from thefitld- - populations over most of the state. Few hunters (54) participated in the pigeon hunt during 1975, but hunter success and the total harvest increased over the previous year. Band-taile- d Pigeons Croydon, Utah - Lost Creek Reservoir was the site of an unusual happening a short time ago. Thousands of Uinta - By Bliss Lets talk Wasatch C3ES70 TO P six x -- harvest Clair Utah. Areas like Farmington Bay, Bear River Refuge and marsh, Cutter of has some of the best banding records on Canada geese in honkers and learn more the nation, Jensen added. about their habits. Many birds trapped each Each year during the year have been traped earlier season when the geese are in and are already wearing leg moult and thus unable to fly, jewelry. Numbers on these many areas in the state are "retraps are recorded and picked to trap the birds and forwarded to the Bird Bangather biological statistical ding Laboratory, along with Desert Lake Waterfowl date from the birds that area the biological data and new Management Area in Emery caputred. Numbered leg leg band numbers given to County. It is hoped that the young geese will return to the bands, provided by and newly trapped birds. This year geese were transplant sites following thw registered with the Office of trapped in 13 different areas winter migration south. Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, are attached gjFREEFORALLFREEFORAllFREEFORALLFREE report given Upland Game Annual Report indicates that unseasonal weather during nesting seasons may make upland waterfowl biologist. Utah has a'long history of banding success. The state has been keeping records of banded geese for some 25 years and annually bands more than 1,000 birds," said personnel in continuing efforts to manage the graceful Upland game Utah shland areas. birds, both young Because of the length of Actually, it was all part of the annual goose banding time involved and the success project conducted by Division of our banding efforts, Utah late-comer- 1975 to many and old. well-planne- d -- The Looking slightly like tactical maneuvers, waterfowl managers of the of Wildlife Diision Resources executed frontal attacts and closed off the avenues of escape on thousands of Canda geese in many of the states mar- about the Front Football League for boys (WFFL). The WFFL has 23 par- ticipating cities between Woods Cross on the south and Preston, Idaho on the north. It is divided into three divisions to according and teams population available. Roy, with 14 total teams is in division I and plays teams from Logan, Brigham City, South Ogden, Layton and Bountiful. Clearfield, with five total teams, is in division II. They play teams from Smithfield. Bear River, North Ogden, Washington Terrace, Sunset. Kaysville, Centerville and Woods Cross. Division III Pleasant View, Riverdale, includes: Morgan, Clinton, HAFB, Syracuse and Farmington. 152 teams played WFFL football last year. The teams are broken down according to age, weight and experience. For example Fullmer Directors and with recommendations of the coaches. When a boy joins a 70 pound team, he must weigh no more than pounds for the first game. (He can and usually does weigh less than 70). He may gain an additional five pounds through the season, but he must never exceed 75 pounds or his team will forfeit that game. 70 5 When they exceed the pound limit, he can move to the 85 pound team(s) which is for boys through eleven years of age. 70-7- Next step up is to the 100 pound team (Junior) and the age limit is 12. the boy plays on the 120 pound team (Senior). There is a BIG BOY team for the 150 pound 13, L and 15 year olds, but most boys of that size and age play for their respective junior high teams At age 13, The WFFL is strongly to opposed Stacking Teams.'' This happened in when a 70 pound eight or nine year old boy first comes into the program he is assigned to a 70-team for beginners, called the Mites. He can play on this team only one year, and then moves up to 70-- or 70-(Pee Wee) teams. If the beginner is too big for 70 pound ball, he is assigned to an 85 pound "B" team. The 70-team is for nine Directors can take action against member cities who violate the league charter in the selfish interest of winning at all costs. It is hard for a city to explain, when one of their teams beats the other by a landslide score. It indicates that teams were not meant to and ten year olds with he of equal playing experience, but not quite ready to move on to more competitive football. It is also for a ten year old 70 pounder with no previous experience. The 70-team is for the stronger and more ex- perienced nine and ten year old boys. This is supposedly the strongest of the 70 pound teams. Boys are assigned to 70-teams by the Recreation one or two instances last year in the WFFL. The Board of With strength. apparent reference to Ihe cities of Roy and Bountiful. one league director warned apparent offenders of season, that One of these days we will blow you right ojf the field, if you dont mind your business."' His reference was that if one of the stronger cities were encouraged to stack teams, last they would totally dominate the whole league. ground squirrel apparently drowned themselves in the reservoir, much like the migrations of European lemmings that drown in the 5 M 3 On all new rotary engine p o cars or trucks bought on 3 or after July 1, 1976. P P ocean. According to the local Conservation Officer, John Pratt, fishermen at the site reported seeing the squirrels go into the water and drown. of Division Wildlife Resources Nongame and Research Biologist, Robert Hasenyager, investigated the circumstances and collected samples for further study. Results of the investigation were forwarded to Dr. David F. Balph, a wildlife professor at Utah State University and a noted authority on ground squirrels. Dr. Balph indicated that the event was something he would not have predicted, although squirrels can swim. Without additional input, he could not be certain of the causes behind the drownings, but proposed a combination of events that was probably P i E as 3 P so responsible. Squirrel population in the area was up, causing greater than usual population density. The animals were in the dispersal phase of their annual cycle, meaning that the young were leaving the natal burrow and competing for burrows in which to live. In addition, squirrels are bothered by heat, which may have added to the two other factors to create unusual circumstances. Balph said that overheated squirrels might either move to the water because they know it is cool, or they might move there simply following a temperature gradient. Many of the" squirrels appeared to be the smaller and immature to animals, partially substantiate Dr. Balphs which served hypothesis. 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