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Show Wild Life Abounds On Manti Forests The annual fish and game report for the Manti National forest for the year 1931, shows a healthy increase n all big game animals, including bear. Unfortunately, coyotes, bobcats, and mountain lion have also increased in numbers. According to the rangers' reports there are 134 bear, 1350 coyotes, coy-otes, C10 bobcats and 126 mountain lion on the Manti forest. During the past year 585 coyotes, 21 mountain lion, 171 bobcats, 3 bear and 999 porcupine have been destroyed destroy-ed by the biological survey hunters, local hunters and forest officers. These reports show foxes, martin, mink, beaver, badgers and ermine on i number of the districts. During the past hunting season, 3975 hunters sought deer on the Manti forest. The total kill of the big game, as reported, report-ed, was 1004 deer and 27 elk. Predatory Pre-datory animals killed 256 deer and 19 elk during the year, according to the rangers' reports. A number of California elk hunters, hunt-ers, seeing, the large number of bucks remaining after the deer hunt, have expressed themselves as planning to come to the Manti forest next fall to hunt deer. Between 150,000 and 160,000 trout fingerl'ngs from the federal hatchery at Springville have been planted in streams and lakes within this forest during the past season. The State Fish and Game department has also furnished more than a quarter of a million trout fingerlings for planting :n the streams and waters within the Manti forest, and in Scofield reservoir reser-voir and Spring creek outside the forest. |