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Show MARCH THURSDAY, PAGE 4 Pesticides Are Wiping Out Honeybees APPEALS FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT Fish And Game Tackle Poaching cases like this one that make you wonder just how much of our game is being ripped NOTE: Information in this article it taken from an Idaho Fish and Game Commission sanctioned study in 1968 on poaching in Idaho, Some of the information cannot be made public because of the danger of jeopardising investigations that are underway or planned by the department. off. Why do people fail to report poaching w'hen it nar- rows the legal hunters chances of taking the same game during open season? THE STl'DENT who pretended to be a poacher, revealed part of the problem. His report said he lived at a private residence with two other individuals. A poacher is busy skinning a deer he has shot out of season in Idaho when a man, obviously a resident of the area, walks up to him. The conversation goes this way: Good morning. What do you have there?" A deer. Not so fat is it? Its still in good shape. Who owns this land? I do." Oh!" 19 Color A labor, STOKES BROS. Loyan N. Baird cited the rising prices people are willing to pay for trophies, legal or otherwise. When a trophy bighorn carries a price of as high as $5,000, no quesBaird said, tions asked, and economic conditions being what they are, the results are obvious." INI With Windshields Car Do Pick Free 752-895- 6 o o poaching incidents. In one community, the researcher says, it was common knowledge that he was a poacher. Neighbors would call and request that skins be removed from the street that dogs had dragged there from my garage. After nine deer and two had hung and were butchered in the garage, two persons reported the incident to a conservation officer, saying it (poaching) was getting out of hand and something had to be done. elk EARLIEST ACCIDENT The earliest recorded traffic accident in the United States in which a pedestrian was hit by an automobile occurred in New York City in 1899, the National Geographic Society says. UPSIDE-DOW- RIVER N Truck farms and orchards at Carnarvon. Western Australia. get their water from the Gascoyne, known as the upside-dowriver, Nan tional Geographic says. The Gascoyne looks like a smooth, sandy highway, but fresh water flows a few feet under the sand and is pumped to the fields. THE NEWS EXAMINER MONTPELIER THE CACHE CASTLES FALL REGISTER LOGAN A geologist has concluded that the recent collapse of a number of Swedish castles and other ancient monuments has been caused by detergents that have turned supporting clay to mud. HAE AN' ABMWDOM TTOTTHEFAMDILY ONE INCH FROM HELL The port of Bandar Abbas, at the entrance to the Persian Gulf, was said by 17th-centu- ry TV English seamen to one inch from because of its constant be located hell plus sweltering heat. National Geographic says. Today a modern Iranian naval base at the port guards the strategic oil tanker lanes. 750 W. 752-643- 2 TRACTOR FURNITURE it's name is MomtfipeDiieir THAT BRINGS THE TOTAL TO MORE THAN SEATS SEATS CYCLE 20,000 Set MACAL UPHOLSTERY 6UNDERSEN DATTOR, IDAHO PHONE 4 When you count Logan and all of Cache County, Preston, Grace and Tremonton, then add Montpelier ... you get more than 20,000 Homes when you place an ad in the Combined Advertising Service. Remember, thats 20,000 HOMES, not 20,000 People. 7 Counties are involved EVERY Thursday. All Weeklies (except one "Advertiser: The Cache Register) are Local Newspapers. Cost for Ad Space is low. A Triple Arena R MARCH COLLECTION FOR : LEADS, VS ENROLLMENT call: If anrone Is Interested BACKING in PLACE YOUR AD TODAY SUPPLING I SUPPLING for Western a A English Horse special class for you: 753-195- 3 in "Dressaie PHONE NOW! BREAKING and Western EXTENSION: I Logan) IN: ADVANCED English TRAINING, So. of (all day) ...8:30-5:3- 0 TRAINING EQUITATION BIT 91 (Hwy. ENROLL HALTER Up Delivery Call FOR UPHOLSTERY OF MAX CO. GLASS GORDON'S The student had a special permit for the animals he poached, and deer carcasses were used and reused across the state in the simulated warranty on Picturo Tube. $240. 2nd The cards, which can be filled out on the spot, are designed to avoid cases in which people either forget too many of the details of a poaching incident or decide to forget the whole thing by the time they return from a hunting trip. THE HOW program also is in response to indications that poaching in the state is likely to increase. being involved in a court warranty on ill parts out to all license buyers with blanks to list descriptions of poachers, location of illegal kills and other information. case. They never reported me to an enforcement agent. If the neighbor hadn't called, we would have had no way of knowing the goats were taken illegally in Idaho, Baird said, and it's RCA wallet-size- d want them declared endangered. A 20 per cent drop in American bee colonies in the past 10 years is particularly troubling because of the important role bees play in increasing yields, not only of fruits and berries but also of key crops like soybeans and alfalfa. The California almond groves are so dependent on bee pollination that growers had to import 100,000 bee colonies from as far away as Montana. WisA ban on aerosol sprays consin cranberry growers have found that bees can that scientists fear are destriple their yields; they in troying Earths protective by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The council says continued use of the Freon propellants in many household sprays will deplete the ozone layer by 16 per cent in another 25 years, thus exposing people to dangerous amounts of ultraviolet rays and causing a dramatic increase in the incidence of skin cancers. They repeatedly warned me of my illegal activity, and were concerned about WITH VAST territories to cover, the conservation officer can't always be at the right place at the right time for an arrest. I sometimes think the public simply isnt aware of how much of the states poaching goes unreported. Baird said. Baird recalled a Pennsylvania man who saw his neighbor unloading mountain goats after a hunting trip. The neighbor reported the incident to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the goats were traced to Idaho poaching. old will have green, to hand cards hives. The problem is worldwide: West Germany's recent apple crop was down 41 per cent, and sunflower plantations in Burma have failed to produce any seed for two years. The pesticide menace, combined with the loss of nectar sources fields of flowers to the plow and bulldozer, prompted some World Food Conference delegates to call for a program to quadruple the worlds 50 million honeybee colonies. ozone layer is being sought meat. We make appeals for public support in reporting any poaching the public might see, but getting people to turn someone in' is difficult, and when they do report violations, there often is too little information for an arrest, Dale Baird, Bureau of Enforcement chief, said. Getting the point across that the public, as well as conservation officers, are stewards of the states game is difficult, Baird said. for SALE. THE CONCLUSION would seem to be that people do not report poaching until it is a fairly large operation. One incident of poaching, such as the Pennsylvania case, is likely to go unreported by Idahoans. As a result of this kind of finding in this and other studies, the department is beginning the Help Our Wildlife (HOW) program. Department district managers, conservation officers and vendors in the state soon creased their income by $4 million by renting 2,000 Pesticides are wiping out honeybees at such an alarming rate that agriculturists These individuals knew nothing of the research project and believed that I was a violator who sold game YEAH, but don't worry about the deer. There's a lot of them around here. Just throw the remains over the hill there. I won't say anything, so don't worry. "Thanks a lot! A little meat will sure help out the family. You betcha, and take it easy. The poacher in this case was a student working on a thesis for his master's degree, a thesis on poachers and their Idaho operations. The conversation is included in the results of the study and is one of the headaches of conservation officers working with the Idaho Depart-- 1 ment of Fish and Game. LOGAN-SMITHFIEL- D 563-590- 0 Competition, let ns know. 1975 6, PRESTON 852-015- 5 TREMONTON 257-551- 3 GRACE 425-369- 3 MONTPELIER 847-055- 2 A |