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Show Safety Course Required Before Hunting License Falltime is an active time. Many hunter's again start taking to the fields and hills In pursuit of their favorite game animal. New hunters, therefore, need to be aware of their ncessary preparations before going to buy a license. Classes In hunter safety will again be held starting the week of September 13. Classes are held in the new high school building at the corner of Center and 2nd East, posters will be displayed in the schools and at the Post Office listing specific times and dates of classes. The course is a minimum of 10 hours of instruction. Utah law requires that all resident hunters until age 21 must enroll in and pass an approved hunter safety course. A blue card is issued to successful graduates. This card must be shown to the license agent each year until age 21 in order to purchase a hunting license. If the card is lost a duplicate can be obtained from any Division Of Wildlife Resources office. If the student graduated from an approved course in another state a Utah card can be ob tained without taking the class again. In 1957 when the program was first started in Utah, 165,081 hunters went afield and 22 of them ended up on the mortuary slabs. As the program gained momentum, hunter deaths dropped to 12 in 1959, 7 in 1960 and only 5 in 1961. Since then, they have fluctuated froom 4 to 8 per year. Again, 1975 was a banner year in setting new records for low hunter accidents. At the same time as the accidents decreased, the number of licensed hunters doubled and the number of juvenile sportsmen increased fivefold. Earl Roe Is the approved hunter safety Instructor In Panguitch. He has completed a required instructors training course to qualify as an instructor for the Division of Wildlife Resources. We are fortunate to have Mr. Roe as an instructor. He is a very capable teacher of gun safety and is dedicated to this program. Mr. Roe has taught the hunter safety program for several years and offers both a spring and fall course. |