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Show Antelope transplant from Wyoming to Utah is planned About 200 antelope will be trapped near Lusk, Wyoming, In January and then released in Utah, according to a joint announcement by the U. S. Bureau of Land Management and the Utah Division of Fish and Game. Depending on trapping results, re-sults, about 100 antelope will be released on Hatch Point between be-tween Moab and Monticello and another 100 on Myton Bench, southwest of Ouray,: Uintah County, according to .Robert D. Nielson, BLM state. 1 director for Utah. I John E. Phelps, State Fish' I and Game Director, said pub-I pub-I lie opinion has been expressed in favor of these transplants.) He said the action will pro- victe potential lor two new huntable herds in Utah and will enhance the wildlife resource, re-source, j Results of studies made jointly by the Fish and Game Division and BLM this past summer show that both areas are suitable habitat for prong, horn antelope. At meetings of the general public, livestock permittees in the areas involv-ed. involv-ed. and BLM district advisory boards, it was decided there would be no serious conflict with existing uses in the twol areas. |