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Show I ' Big Game Officials Meet In Milford With Sportsmen Milford's interest in big game matters was accorded deserved recognition Friday afternoon of last week when representatives of the regional forest office in Og-den Og-den and the state fish and game j department in Salt Lake City, together to-gether with Beaver forest and ' game officials, were present for a J hurriedly called local meeting. With no previous hint of the visit, the secretary of the Milford Wild-j Wild-j life Protective association was I called on the phone shortly be-fore be-fore noon and asked if a meeting could be arranged for mid-after-j noon, and this was done. Other of-jficers of-jficers of the local club were con- tasted and they did what they j could to tell club members of the meeting. Due to the lack of time and inaccesibility of many local J sportsmen, however, only a small ; portion of the membership could be contacted, but the number who gathered crowded to full capacity the office of Attorney Sam Cline, I president of the club. Despite his j absence from the city, his office iwas commandeered for the occas-I occas-I ion and served very well, i Three rolls of motion picture : film, one of them beautifully col-I col-I ored, were shown, with a running i description by Orange A. Olsen, ! wildlife specialist from the regional region-al forest office. One of the pictures pic-tures showed the method of counting count-ing elk by airplane, clearing up in the minds of those present any doubts they may have had as to the practicability of such counts. No matter how dense the aspen growth, with the leaves off and a snow background, the elk were plainly visible, while their trails in the snow loomed up almoslt unbelievably un-believably plain, thus affording proof of the presence of elk in a given area. Another picture showed show-ed wildlife and camping scenes of the intermountain country in beau-ful beau-ful natural colors, and the third roll showed contrasting scenes of over-grazed range areas, as contrasted con-trasted with test plats on the forests, for-ests, some of the shots being of scenes on the Beaver unit of the Fish Lake forest. Following the showing of the pictures, C. J. Olsen, assistant re-j re-j gional forester, led in discussion ; of wildlife and range management ' problems. A former supervisor of j Nevada forest units with head- quarters in Ely, Mr. Olsen is well j known in western -Beaver county and it was largely through him that the pictures were brought to Milford and local people given an opportunity to voice their ideas on big game and other matters. He explained that the board of big game control sets up allotments of deer and elk to be removed from : various areas, that the regulations governing such removal were set up by the state fish and game commission, and that the forest service entered the picture only as the custodian of the forest areas. Representing the state 'fish and game department at the meeting were George W. Reed, chief of the law enforcement division, and Allen Al-len C. Randle, chief of big game management. H. M. Christensen, ranger for the Beaver unit of the Fish Lake forest, and Dudley Gillies, Gil-lies, deputy warden, who assists with the annual deer count in Beaver Bea-ver county, both of Beaver, also were present. Mr. Reed and Mr. Randle went into some detail concerning the recent hornless deer hunt, explaining explain-ing some of the regulations and clearing up some misunderstandings misunderstand-ings and untrue stories of abuses of the doe hunt.. Mr. Randle also took the opportunity to impress hunters -with the necessity for returning re-turning the postage-paid tags attached at-tached to both buck and doe permits, per-mits, whether the hunter was successful suc-cessful or not. Unless this is done, a true picture of the deer situation situa-tion as a result of the hunt is not possible. 1 In conclusion, Mr. Reed stated that it is the desire .of the state commission to cooperate in every way possible with the various fish and game clubs and stated that he would be glad to name as deputy wardens any persons recommended by the local club. In this connection, connec-tion, he complimented the Milford group on the strides that had been , made in this vicinity in the sup-j sup-j port of game laws and the prosecution prose-cution of violators. Two com- plaints alleging illegal killing of pheasants were issued locally last year, one resulting in a plea of guilty and the other escaping prosecution only by leaving the state. |