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Show Leon Bogedahl, front, and Nelson LaFon, both wildlife biologists , stopped for lunch at the Garfield County Road Shed in Boulder where they refueled their helicopter and their tummies. Bogedahl, who works far the Division of Wildlife Resources in Loa, BOULDER Refueling their helicopter in the afternoon at Boulder, wildlife experts were near-ing near-ing the end of the fourth and final day of their official count of Douldcr Mountain elk. In the air about eight hours a day, thus far they had logged a total of 594 elk. Nelson LaFon, wildlife biologist and LaFon who works for the Forest Service in Escalante were in the final afternoon of a four-day elk count on Boulder Mountain. Their pilot was Dave Uind of Boise, Ida. who operated die craft for Idaho Helicopters. Elk Counted On Boulder Mountain with the Escalante District of the Dixie National Forest and Leon Bogedahl, wildlife biologist with the Division of Wildlife Resources, in Torrey were piloted by Dave Lund of Idaho Helicopters located in Boise, Ida. They were refueling from a truck parked at the Boulder County Road Shed. During the earlier days of the count, they had been joined by Loa livestockmen Steve Dalton of Sandy Ranch and Gary Hallows of Security Ranch. It costs about $465 an hour to operate the helicopter for the count. |