Show e oe o SHOTS FROM I ITHE THE MOUNTAIN By KENNETH TUTTLE Conservation Officer Utah Fish and Game Dept coee Fishing and hunting licenses are way too cheap in Utah We are operating on a license scale set up back in 1953 Comparing what you get for your money on a fishing or hunting license or ora a a. 6 00 combination license this is so cheap that it is almost lous louse Here is why Fishing and hunting are sports that you can participate the year round and you only pay once once and and they generally do yield something besides exercise Take bowling Four lines cost close to and lasts from two to three hours Take Golf F Eighteen holes cost about 3 00 for an afternoon afternoon after after- afternoon noon of exercise Take skiing A days day's skiing costs about Take movies You spend spendin in the neighborhood of to for two hours of enter enter- Its It's the same way with almost al al- almost most all forms of recreation The guy that grumbles the most thinks nothing of spend spend- spending spending ing more for whiskey and beer than all other expenses combined and he will then add to it by spending a few dollars dollars dol dol- dollars lars at the corner pub on the way home Most hunters and fishermen enjoy their day out and if they d do shoot game or catch fish then this becomes gravy Just stop and think at the close of the opening day of fishing or hunting There are many many days left to have fun on the small sum paid for your license It could be that Utah hunters hunters hunt- hunt hunti i ers ers and fishermen may be sellIng sell sell- I Ing lug themselves down the river riv riv- er This is due to the fact that I sportsmen In general do not keep themselves accurately informed informed in in- informed formed on matters that critically critically critically critic critic- ally affect their sport To il illustrate illustrate il- il lustrate this there is the dil dil- dilemma dilemma emma presently faced by the Department of Fish and Game Operations costs have risen rapidly in the last few years and it is becoming difficult difficult difficult dif dif- to continue present programs pro pro- programs grams on the existing funds There are still a lot of people who do not know that the Fish and Game Dept is fi financed financed ft by the sportsman and that the Department receives no funds at all from general taxation It seems that most everyone is demanding better managed hunting and more and larger fish This is impossible impossible impossible im im- possible as long as the current current current cur cur- rent situation remains un un- changed It is necessary that all sportsmen get the facts before before be be- fore their sport suffers the c consequences |