Show ' JOB THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMIin- i OGDEN UTAH SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 21 1935 m:m Good Hatch W deported In Canada 3 r ' J Waterfowl nesting in western Canada's prairie provinces have produced a good first hitch The over-al- l picture £hows the brood average as being better than six young' the 'long-terSecond nesting ataverage tempts by ducks which lost first clutches are now in evidence tog gether with broods from " Ow'WoIJflfe ' !'' By ROLLO ROBINSON- SPEAKING OF SAGE HEN CAMOUFLAGE The mother sage hen usually selects low sparse sage brush in which to construct her nest Such a location affords concealment and a quick escape from enemies (PhotoJ courtesy Wyoming Fish and Game Department) HUNTING AND FISHING With ROLLO ROBINSON The annual jollification sponsored Jby the Weber Wildlife Federation for sportsmen and their families at South Fork last Sunday provided entertainmejtit for everyone j fish-pon- 15-2- 2: 1-- 5 k-- 6 j 15-2- 2 22-N- Oi-Heb- ov Check Guns For Safety " nt ' Wes Santee Runs 4:112 Mile and breeding conditions are dose by U S' and Canadian officials with If amiliar tools of aerial surveys and such But the banding studies are what tell the story of where ducks go anct why and how many and what kind of luck they have en route There is no substitute for manpower in a project like this and until last year's cooperative effort was inspired by the Mis i four-minut- e ts : Jimmy became a prime mover said In the pheasant conservation 200! promised project The league I J Li Pen" ':' "We couldn't ehange the dies for 300 bands" said Carroll 'so Jimmy went to work on his own and each night scratched the words TJV Pen on each band PISTON RING 2 (Tvft LETi 60 OVER TO VOUS PLACE A WMV NO X l ±f un Jjr80W-- 1 Hatchery trout at the Department of Fish and Game's 12 state facilities are now being sorted for the lasUheavy plant of the j? current angling season ' The department said stocks of rainbow lcgals will go into the "put and take" waters over the State in preparation for the Labor Day weekend crowds This Is in line with the announced department program this spring to plant hatchery raised legals as near the creel as possible during the actual pressure of the angling season The records show a greater return of such fish to the creel when so £ ' stocked August Only i i FORD rf I TKE 8 MV projects And already with the discovery of such variations as the pintails which pay not a hoot to the rules and go from their Saskatchewan homes down the Pacific Flyway instead of the Mississippi there's an idea that furtheri7refinements may be made when more is known But refinements like predictions depend in the end on the guy with a gun CAR TO "s STOCKS WJC? 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NEW PISTON RINGS Vfifi: 359 26th St I Ph 8803 J - STOCKING OF HIGH WATER AREAS GOOD of native cut" throat fry and brook trout fingerling Into high country— Stocking : waters is nearing completion for this year according- i to the State Department of i Fish and Game The department said that the plant when finished will r total two and "million native fry and three-quartthree-quarte- er million brook Annually finger-lin- g with stocked these fishes are high mountain waters of the Uintahs i and some Southern Utah ranges Most of the small fish ar carried into otherwise inac-- " cessable areas by A small portion of the total number can be taken by jeep An adequate supply of small native and brook are? being held at the hatcheries to be planted in some high country lakes as experimental planting continues with the department's newly acquired plane Early use of this method forecasts extensive planting by plane in future years I pack-hors- e -- -- g tin? i eh tilnri l-- it r J nips ' 31' J-t- i7wi:iii'(oii)ii " - - - ' "I ' Two local business men taking delivery on their new Liner Cessna 170 Mr F C Rasmussen and Mr N C Rasmussen'say that It has become a necessity to add this private transport tation facility to their businesses iwzu ijiv v - jtr :v 3-60- 82 - tis&fz-zi- J 1 ' - ': i'd i 18413 Get Permits to 4 FOR FAST DEPENDABLE CHARTER SERVICE ' CALL BYEXPG¥S GASKETS w on w:y LABOIt OGDEN FORD 1 SALES -- ' j ex-Kans- as non-residen- he said j The completed trails include ten miles along Moose Creek nine miles along Deer Creek four miles on Silge Creek three rmiles on Harlan Creek four -- along Lodgepole and three miles on Ramey Creek By the end of the program on Sept 15 a total of 53 miles of new trails are expected to be finished Leonard reported Val Simpson forest ranger at Chamberlain is in charge of the construction crews Mul-cah- con-cer- j i BOISE — Idaho's 24 big game special hunts offered a total of 18413 permits thisyear the Idaho Fish and Game Department said yesterday- With applications closing for the special elk hunts (Aug 18) and for deer (Aug 25) the annual "snowstorm" of special hunt applications was at its height last week Ross Leonard director said These two groups of hunts alone offer 16225 permits as compared with 15725 last year when nearly 30000 applications were filed he explaineL Permits for the moutin goat bighorn sheep moose antelope and 'archery hunts have already been mailed to the successful applicants for those hunts Leonard said Drawings for the elk and deer special hunts will follow as soon as possible after applications close "Because of the lai'ge numbers involved in these hunts the processing period will be somewhat longer than on the previous drawings" he said Leonard explained that Idaho law restricts hunting in' game preserves to special hunts and this type of hunt also is used in areas where might result from a general open season hunts are still necessary in Idaho for moose antelope mountain goaU and bighorn sheep" he pointed out "and are used to regulate the number and distribution of hunters in a number of deer and elk areas" — — — e - f new hunting access trails in Chamberlain Basin have been completed and work is continuing on five more the Idaho Fish and Game Department said yesterday Ross Leonard director said the trails are being constructed ninder cooperative program by the Uf S Forest Service and the department with federal aid funds They are intended to provide access for hunters into elk concentration areas! previously blocked by down timber or other surface barriers " ' ' h - BOISE —- Six over-huntin- 11-2- ! SIX NEW TRAILS ARE MADE IN CHAMBERLAIN BASIN : : con-siderabl- Game Tags Idaho Ready pig-lik- e The average number of eggs found in the nests of sage grouse is seven although nine can Jbe counted in the nest above The incubation period Varies from 25 to 27 days-an- d the young can make short flights in one or two weeks (Photo Courtesy of Wyoming Fish and Game Department) The Associated Press Although waterfowl hunting regulations may seem like some of life's other little mysteries to come stgt of thin air they have music behind them instead of magic The basic framework of the 1955 seasons announced during the past week by the U S Fish and Wildlife Service for instance were based on some pretty positive predictions about where the ducks are going to be and how many Flights on all flyways are ex pected to be the best since 1952" the federal service said in set- sissippi Flyway council of state ting up regulations that will per- administrators the best that mit states to have from 70 to 80 coald be done was mighty little Last year however 60 wildlife days of duck hunting if individual fish and game authorities decide workers from 12 states were sent to join U S and Canadian authey ought to thorities in the banding task FORECAST INCREASE catching flightless little ducks by The service forecast a the hundreds to slip the tell-talincrease in the fall band on small webbed feet More flights lor the Mississippi and than 17000 : birds were banded Central Flyways a moderate in- then crease in the Atlantic Flyway and This year 68 waterfowl tech a slight increase in the Pacific nicians from 16 states — includFlyways ing California New York North The summary was brief But Carolina Colorado Virginia it took the combined efforts of Massachusetts and Delaware in waterfowl experts from the sed- - addition to the Mississippi Flyway erair government the Canadian states — tagged around 20000 Dominion and provincial agencies birds in the three major provinand from 16 cooperating states cial duck producing areas to produce it The tab for the tours was paid The cooperative effort concen by the sponsoring body mostly First Draftee trates in the duck factory marsh- state game commissions but inThe first major league player es of Saskatchewan Alberta and cluding some sportsmen's clubs to be drafted into the Army durManitoba and now in its second y Without cooperation from the ing World War II was Hugh to tell the Phillies of the fellows behind the guns along He was year already promises experts more waterfowl!" secrets the flight lanes however the called March 8 1941 than they've been able to flush whole project goes for nothing out in the previous century It's the return of the bands by Most important to the experts successful hunters that makes arid thus indirectly to the duck the drawing of conclusions poshunter although he may not sible The flyway system itself realize it is the bird banding based on the paths ducks follow program of the cooperative crews from- - their northern birthplace who spend six weeks wading and to their southern wintering working in the marshes The 'gem ground is one result of banding no-huntir- ig A A CLUTCH OF SAGE GROUSE EGGS Idaho Hunts j gvf I r: o w - l By DION HENDERSON Pheasants hard-fishe- 1 Required Combined Efforts Of Experts in U S Canada ilgr Jimmy did all the work himself He enlarged the pens built runways set up the wiring Wiring fs a special problem and he league set aside $100 to provide extra wire for the pens But Jimmy scrounged the extra wire and saved the league its $t00 Jimmy now has an additional 100 birds Before birds are released they are banded with a regulation aluminum band typed "Notify Game Farm Saskatoon Sask" Jimmy asked if the inscription couldn't be ehangedPto "P A : It Holnc With Hatchery Trout Are Being Sorted Now lope and rabbits which are also attracted by food and water Bufi the 'most effective means of decreasing highway fatalities of sage grouse is to educate drivers to watch for the birds and avoid hitting them Very often a slight decrease in speed or a turn of the wheel will enable a flock of grouse to pass safely across the road who have struck Drivers grouse usually wish that they had- - driven more cautiously A large cock will weigh six pounds and can easily explode through a windshield The occupants may be cut or the driver distracted causing him to lose control of his vehicle LIMITED HUNTS ' Only an estimate can be made of the millions of sage grouse that once lived in the region from southern Canada to New Mexico and from eastern Cali fornia to Colorado But like the buffalo and the antelope only a remnant f ' the vast flocks of sage hensl remain today Over hunting and the destruction of the sagebrush habitat so important for these birds brought this species very close to extinction Careful management has made it possible to have limited hunts for this species during recent years In districts where controlled hunting is permitted the sage grouse is no longer the stupid fool hen of western sjtories Although admittedly not in the same class as the Chinese pheasant or the quail !the sage hen is a very strong flier and hard to V kill 'j But remember: if you desire-thunt these birds some day— or even maintain them as partof our wildlife heritage— drive ctre-full- y be wildlife conscious! ! non-reside- " j Prisoner t AY I- 10-1- 1 : V' Wildlif e rbrecas' OOK Much W orlc 17-1- m : To many motorists the ride acrpss thisvast prairie of east- earth through maintenance and ern Oregon is monotonous They the accumulation of moisture Early morning and evening press the accelerator to the floor In 1951 we were following a hours are the critical periods car through this flat expanse Visibility is poor at this time when suddenly a flock of sage and drivers frequently cannot grouse appeared at the side of j seeUhe greyish birds until too the highway The driver ahead late In Strawberry Valley just east saw the birds but made no atUtah there once existtempt to stop or swerve to miss a ed them large concentration of sage hens as as Highway 40 cuts through large Nearly turkeys walked slowly onto the tar and this valley The number of grouse killed rose on their wings just as the car smacked into them A cloud by vehicular traffic on this secof feathers billowed upward and tion of road is exceedingly high the bodies of four grouse hurdled Two of us counted more than 50 dead birds on a 15 mile stretch over the automobile ' of this highway one July mornREASON FOR DECLINE ings None of the carcasses apYes the sage hen has been peared to be more than a week called a stupid bird Men have old been known to beat them to There are other localities in death with long sticks But their the intermountain states where inclination to walk into the paths fatalities on roadways are likerv cT cnAAHtntf c KfiiM irc wise very high Fish and game portant factor in the decline in departments have erected signs numbers of this species which inform motorists of the During the summer- - months presence of these birds Undoubtwhen the mother sage grouse and edly these warnings help to deher brood are searching or food crease the kill and water they frequent the A very effective method of shoulders and pits along high- - keeping grouse away from the ways These areas produce a roadside is to kill the vegetation luxuriant growth of vegetation by spraying This keeps because of the stirring of the other wildlife such as deer away ante 1 1 j f 9-- 1 1 Dirus ieeaj ana a crooner i the road streaks directly eastward — There were fun spots for kids — and adults in the picnic area teflipoi:arilyJ forgot about the ren- Bingo egg throwing contests j in the They races ibt boys and girls archery egades have and probably won exhibits "and drawings for prizes escaped were a few of the day's features dered all of these years what Even the fishermen had a field that terrible thing was that put day The Utah Fish and Game De- them and the horses to flight partment released a number of trout in the area some of them CLIP THESE OUT weighing six pounds And on the Dates for the autumn hunts bench above" the river a number j! of turkeys were won by trap are as follows: first attempts j Desert — Southwest shooters Antelope: The same heavy production is Mr thank you The sportsmen Cedar City— Aug 15- attributed to southeastern south- Clyde Warner president or the Auc western and central portions of FprWnfinn: and vour organiza 22: Boxeldejr County-Se- pt Some areas open Elk: Oct Alberta A considerable area of tional officers for "a tery success is Alberta undergoing southern as early asfeept 24 while a few ful day some and conditions drought districts wflf not be hunted until UNUSUAL HOOK broods have been lost especially All permits to hunt Muggs Huff Kalispell Mont November among the Pintails Canada Geese w to take elk ill be drawn Sept 2 but this found that trout refused are enjoying a good year inEasthiii bait such as grasshoppers region particularly in the applications must be submitted ern Irrigation District where when threaded on a hook The between Aug many Ducks Unlimited projects 'hoppers however when thorwn Deer: Regular season— Oct free into the water were gulped are located 1 Special huntstopened as eagerly Swinging to water conditions "Exa invented states So BOISE — With the hunting very early as Aug 6 Others will exMuggs generally Cartwright in- in clever hold to area device season large tend to Nov 19 just around the corner cept for the drought lies salmonf as maysects is such Idaho Fish and Game Departthere the ample southern Alberta WaterfowlV Season will prob ment and flies almost everywhere grasshoppers today urged hunters to get surface water run Oct about start and 1 nest-of ably unusual equipsecond This out piece their guns and check them to see hatches from for 80' days jn this flyway to make sure they are ready for ins afelv on the wing This is ment consists of a long shanked with a wire loop and two or Use Sage grouse: Septj subject to a continuation of favor hook h&ld in bait to the disshort 8 on E Kliess Brown chief of in conditions" the prongs depending able weather Sept ' formation and education pointed position trict Handicapped veterans in the Doves: Opens Sept 1 and will out that both shotguns and rifles Kalispell district are employed likely run for 15 days' should be cleaned and any nec BANDED THEM by Mr Huff to manufacture his essary repairs made and rifles new fish hooks Vegetables! frequently come in sighted in before the hunt starts polyethylene bags These are just He suggested that a little target FISH THIEVES r to shield your camera practice on a gurt range or other the When Jim Murdock first came film things In the boat safe area will help a hunter to accessories and to the Morgan hatchery as superor they will do better and safer shooting days during rainy intendent he was troubled with when the season opens taking help keep picture fish thieves These rascals would ment clean and free fromequipthat "The opening days of each seasneak through the fields and lift demon — moisture u w son I usually produce a high perthe bigspawners from one of the of each season's gun accentage ponds located several hundred more cidents" he said "Much of this! killed Oreson hunters yards from his house any can be attributed to gun handling! One night about dark the sher- deer 112468 last yearinthan Nevada state other habits becoming rusty during Anglers iff called Jim and told him to are Sacramento 'perch the taking months" He also be on the watch for some poachPRINCE ALBERT Sask (AP) ers Jim waited until he couldn't from Walker Lake that weigh up urged parents of children who The number completed gun safety courses pounds The inscription on the alumi- see his old white dog at two to five combination of' big last winter to arrange' for a few Game num band says: "Notify paces Then he walked along a game licenses increased in Wyo"brush-up- " sessions with their Farm P A Pen" fence line that would bring him in to 1942 in 506 2500 from ming bands 200 before on instructors allowing the' It "was scratched within a few yards of the culprits 1951 to Albert take the field youngsters by a prisoner in JPrince They were in the fish all right in be can hunted 200 Antelope but Jim had to cross the page Montana for $20 the lowest nonPenitentiary and today wire fence to make the arrest pheasants are flying about North Saskatchewan wearing the iden- He knew that one squeak from resident pronghorn license in the Bit) Mountain goats have tification pieces The game farm the wire would put them on the CQuntry so increased rapidly in South Darun is his in some kota of the animals that He is known "outside" only as and carefully Jim will be slowly Very sea- climbed a fence trapped and transplanted BOISE — The first shipment post There was to the northern Jimmy If there is an open SasBlack Hills of deer and elk tags forhe comson on pheasants in North no further need to conceal himArizona has declared an open katchewan In the next few yeatf self After jumping to the ground season ing big game season has been on javelina that sporty sent to vendors the Idaho Fish the thanks of the sportsmen must he could be on top of the rascals 7 critter from Feb and Game to a in flash Jimmy Department said yesgo e permits have also terday William Carroll secretary of But unknown to Jim two of been'Thirty-fiviissued for buffalo in our Mrs Prince Albert fish and game his horses both blacks had Faye Whitson license to the south stat$ neighbor had how clerk said told 52000 de'er and 28000 on bedded Jimmy Jim's dotn landing league conelk were the released to 2G5 to feet their tags pheasant league's They helped strip jumped vendors who when Jim and servation project early supcoughing requested snorting Must Be Resident plies A second shipment will "Jimmy became interested in landed on one of them n follow within a week Amidst the confusion and To Get Licenses raising pheasants In 1954" said C C Coutts own Game tags are available earlier for his Carroll "Warden safety Jim — BOISE be To for eligible to go for than usual this year because of Jimmy gave permission iand game licenses the fish resident ahead" Sept 1 opening of deer and an must a been have applicant Hunt and Fish Saskatchewan elk season in a The of northApplications bona fide resident of Idaho for ern Idaho she portion Game League game farm gave Other explained the six months last pastf the vendors will be as Jimmv two dozen birds six weeks Are Due by Aug 25 their supplied Idaho Fish and Game Department orders are received old and from these ne winierea — BOISE Sportsmen who hope said esterdaj 10 birds to in Idaho's special P J McDermott Jr chief of participate be"In the meantime we had hunts deer this fall to are asked conservation enforcement said our pheascome dissatisfied-witsubmit their immed into applications the "Erinquiries coming depart ant scheme" said Carroll the Idaho Fish and Game ment during the past several nie Beggs had released some iately said yesterday weeks indicate some confusion in TORONTO (AP)— Wes Santee Hiirds in the Prince Albert and Department R E Hoffman chief clerk said the public mind on this point the Buckland rural municipalities University milec deer hunt applications "Apparently ai good many people who has come close to breaking but predators got most of them special will close at 5:00 pm on Aug move from state to state about the rmle barrier on We weren't making much prog 25 "With almost 15000 permits this time of ' the year" McDer several previous tries ran the was ress and a league meeting to can do mott said "Tlfese questions seem be issued sportsmen to review called early this spring in 4:112 a favor by getting to come up again every summer" distance yesterday themselves S Army runU Fred the project" Dwyer He warnedi and applications in early" Hoffand Gordon Pirie one of It was decided to establish a their man said "Early applications new residents that "Idaho judges ner farm Britain's breeding top runners finished almean and been have down rathefl drawing early and early work of cracking lot a meant most in a dead heat behind San-te- e "That - sJ a lot of time which most of us drawing means prompt notifica- sharply on violations of the residence requirements and have could not spare" Carroll said tion to the applicants" The permit fee on the special levied some pretty stiff fines in Then J C McKubbin a guard hunts is $3 and the official a number of cases" deer Erat the penitentiary spoke to hunt envelope must be special nie Beggs about Jimmy and his I all applications Hoffman used for AJnr ill birds" 5 vr Highway 20 slides over the Cascade Mountains and downward through a forest of towering yellow pines toward Bend Ore Then after winding briefly alongrthe Deschutes River t time" - Editor Fish-Gam- e d The report states that nesting success has been variable to date and throughout the prairie regionManiIn among different species toba first nestings by Mallards and Pintails in pothole country has been disappointing Blame is placed on floods agricultural Best activities and predation to area in this success nesting date goes to the Canvasback a aperies which nests over water Up to June 25 recorded Mallard young broods averaged A heavy duck crop from first nestings is reported from both eastern and western Saskatchewan Yet the famedf Caron Potholes study area of southern Saskatchewan a region with a nesting density of over 100 breeding showed pairs per square mile from success cent 12 per only Caution Urged on Highways To Avoid Sage Grouse Deer Si "1 S4i 1 2 4 later-nestin- Blue-winge- i ew T© species like Lesser Scaup: Bedhead Baldpate and Teal After treating on the production angle in the current issue of the Ducks Unlimited "Duckologi-cal- " Chief Naturalist Bert W Cartwright goes on "Conditions as they exist over the whole range and the duck crop now in tizht are both infinitely better than they were last year at this " 1 Tk --P- vi-- yim ' Soalliivcslorn S!iyvayc It nof OncJcn rlunldpnl Airport Phono Cessna 3-CC- 32 1 t |