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Show Fish and Game Starts Range Reseeding The Utah Departmen of Fish and Game recently kicked off a $95,000 program of range reseeding reseed-ing on department owned lands, it was announced today. The program, which is largely financed through the Federal Aid to Wildlife Res'oratlon program, pro-gram, will, In the next venr.l clear 5200 acres of land In Dag-1 gett, Millard, Sanpete and Wash.! Ington counties. ' This projec. under way the past month In Millard County, was undertaken to Improve range conditions on s'ate owned trac's, department spokesmen stated. Much of the land to be cleared Is now covered with pin-Ion pin-Ion pine and Juniper, both "f which are poor foods for big game animals or domestic live stock. In many spots these larger plants have literally choked out the preferred browse plants such as bitterbrush. cllffrose and four wing salt bush which have been unable to compete for the nee. essary water to sustain growth. The clearing operation, which will u'lllze two large (D-7) caterpillar cat-erpillar tractors equipped with drag cables and hula dozers, Is a result of range reseeding research re-search conducted by the department depart-ment of fish and game in con-Junction con-Junction with the U. S. Forest fervlce for the past tru-ee years. The research work has been con. ducted at the Intermoun'ain For. est and Range Experiment Sta-i Sta-i tlon at Ephralm. |