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Show Chukar Partridges Released Into New State Sites Recent slocking by the State Fish and Game Department of chukar partridges into 15 new planting sites In Utah brings the total to 34 chosen areas over the state where these birds have been planted since the start of the program pro-gram two and one-half years ago. Adult birds numbering 1,557 made up these latest releases In 13 counties as follows: Iron, Beaver, Bea-ver, Garfield, Emery, Grand, San Juan, Morgan, Box Elder, Utah,1 Sanpete, Sevier, Wayne and Du-1 chesne. Birds went into two sites la both Emery and Wayne counties. coun-ties. The Duchesne County plant nras made with 221 wild chukars from Turkey where they had been trapped and shipped by airplane air-plane to Utah in a continuing cooperative program with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service under un-der a Federal aid project. The Duchesne site is only the second one where wild chukars have been released, the first having been made In Sevier County two years ago. Come From State's Farms Balance of the birds stocked during the . recent plantings were from the State's Price and Springville game bird farms. They were carried through the winter months for spring stocking: stock-ing: after being brooded last spring at the lice farm. The hatchery birds numbered 1,333. The latest plants bring the number of chukars released to 9,738 since the original plant was made In Carbon County in August Aug-ust of 1951. The chukar program is expected ex-pected to advance more rapidly this year wilh the Springville farm producing quantities of birds for the first time, facilities facili-ties there have been previously iwed for pheasant propagation. Both bird farms have approximately approxi-mately 2,000 adult birds on hand as the spring nesting and brooding brood-ing season approaches this year. VU-IA census and observations at all 19 of the areas where releases re-leases had been made through last fall show the birds scattered scatter-ed but to have wintered through veiv wrIL |
