| Show Fatal JP his THE OUTDOORS R RBy at By By Stan Taggart Covering the desert dePert country of the Great Greet Salt Gait lake Government Tra Trapper Belden Lynn baa has in r recent ent months caught W 66 bobcats and coyotes Who vrho out ot of Lakeside Lake LAke- aide side a dinky t railroad town fifty miles northwest of tells tell us hi that tb t there are fewer pred predators on that winter minter sheep range range than there thue have haYE been In past years eare The Echo trapper Ia says he believes there are less leu eats Cats and coyote In the Summit-Morgan Summit area too Hes He's caught 22 bobcats bobcat bob cats cat here this winter D Bel d den n has hM taken some som movies of ot hU his cat trapping cat escapades escapade end also ot of otOme some pome tw two two-to two cast t a trout fishing at Pinedale Wyoming Wyom ing llo showed these films to a Salt BaIt Luke LItke Boy noy Scout group last week The Tho Morgan organ County Wildlife and Rifle RIfle Association has conducted con un- un ducted the two sesel sessions nl of ofUs lib Us tr courses course These Instructive ve daMes clashes for boys bon who like ilko guns are held at the Court house Twenty four enty our teenage boys ere ate enrolled tot for the conr course e. e One One of the reasons i wanted to come back to Utah Wildlife Specialist Jack Berrym Berryman Berry Berry- m man man n told a group of Morgan Farm Bureau members member w was wasso was waso so 0 o that my family and I would have a place t to camp amp hunt fish and such auch things If you live in a place like Ohio Onto there Is in no is-no no no place plate for outdoor out out- outdoor door recreation Mr r. r Berryman pointed out Ohio is o over 99 per cent privately privately owned Its 70 to 80 so per percent percent percent cent posted Theres There's no place to togo togo togo go camping If U Ohioans want to go godo godo godo do some some some-of of the things we enjoy right out in our back yards got to leave the state Before Defore we MC left Utah In about l 1950 O Mr Berryman related we used need t to I get together and go go up Mill Creek Canyon on picnics picnics- much the same as you OU folks do here in In Morgan now We Ve didn't think about getting reservations or or r getting there early or anything any any- thing We just went up and had a picnic Last August which August which was lose less than ten years later later we we came home to Ut Utah h on a vacation My I mother wanted to get the family together and go 10 up there for a I birthday picnic She had bd to the For Forest st Service three days daya In advance anee just so IO to that we could coul have a table In tIll Mill Creek Canyon Can Cans lyen yon i I I I Mr t. t Berryman who represents represent Utah State University and the Utah Game Oame Department also dis- dis UHl d our pheasant situation We can stand a more In In- intensive Intensive Intensive pheasant hunt hunt he said laid Let me draw you a comparison between a state like Ilk Michigan and Utah Utah la II I a little bit bigger but essentially they're about the same size site Michigan has bas six eix and a half million miton people They have a million tall mil lion and a half hall people who go out after pheasants Utah has baa a little littleover over oner a half halt million people about of which are pheasant I hunters hungers Only two per cent of I Utah Utah Is now pheasant habitat habitat- that little narrow cultivated strip In our valleys and along the Wasatch front About half halt of Michigan l on the other hand Is 18 I In In fn pheasant habitat Pheasant hunting pressure in In i I Michigan then Is 22 hunters per square mile So heres here's Michigan n with heavy industry and we I think of it as a very densely populated state with state with 22 hunters to the square mile mlle And do you know w what It Is I. In the state of Utah five Fifty hunters per square mii mile l So here we are out In the wide open spaces paces With nearly three times as many pheasant hunters hunters hunt hunt- ers ere per square mile as 1 Michigan has hal Were Jamming those 65 55 hunt bunt era em per square mile mlle Into a three- three day season day season when biologically we can stand a l longer nger one It wouldn't hurt the birds one bit bit bit- they they can stand the hunting S t I I More than people visited Hardware Ranch during a recent I Sand Sunday Sanday y according to to fish and andI I game department spokesmen l The Tko ranch wintering area for fora forI I a portion of the Cache elk herd is situated in Blacksmiths Blacksmith's Fork Canyon Canyon some 20 miles east of Hyrum Byrum It has proven more popular lr lu each succeeding year year e r as a winter tourist attraction Some elk are now on the i I feed feedlot lot near the ranch building they there j th they art ei r fed dally daily fro from the hay raised I at t t Ii dp ment property during d tl the sum IU summer Me mer months month The no department said ld visitors i iare are welcomed but advised that that f an any one bl able to visit during tl the e week days dare Ih should uld do to so to avoid the week end crowds Elk us ally ar are found Mund on the ranch In numbers n until nUI the end of ot the ben heavy snow period or ot about the middle of Mitch March Gene Brooks Brooke Is to happy to see tee the snow u up but up-but but ut will be happier happier hap hap- pier Iler stilt still when spring shows ol of green face tace ace Cause then he be and the boys plan to load oad up their horses honea drive to Mirror Lake and ride over the pass pace to a Q favorite spot known as al Rock Bock Creek e Utah waters were host boat to 1524 tourist anglers during 1969 according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to department of fish and game records The record shows chows they the came from all at 50 states statu as al well as from four foreign countries Once again tourist anglers from California some made up by far tar the greatest number of fishing folk from a sister state Next greatest numbers came from fromI Nevada Arizona Texas Wyom Wyom- I ing New Mexico Idaho Illinois Washington and Missouri in that I border order I I The annual statewide rides to i is s survey big game wintering range range will soon soon get under way w y in several several sev sev- eral h herd rd areas the d department of fish and g. g game me has announced The department said an Invitation invitation invitation tion is s again for extended for all Interested Interested In In- parties to take part Inthis in inthis this ann annual al range inventory Inventor A schedule Is la now bel being g made up lilting hating the survey dates date's tor for the states state's 62 herd wintering areas with the rides tides to be conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted from late F Fe February e b r u a r y throughout March into mid I I I Interested n t ere I te d Individuals or orI Groups In any part of the state I are arc urged to contact the department d depart part part- ment field representative In Ini i their area to learn the dates for forthe forthe forthe the survey of their choice and preparations necessary for participation participation participation par par- In the rides The surveys are conducted on onI the herd wintering ranges each I year year to determine deer use and andI I conditions of these ranges Trend counts of deer numbers are also made at the same time in many of the herd unite units i i Department spokesmen describe the rides as a prime opportunity for individuals or groups to aid aidin aidin in tn this phase ot of f the game management man man- management program and at the same time have an as in en enjoyable enable able da day afield I Condition n noted noted and the facts gained during t these these se e-se surveys form forman I an an important tart part ot of f. f t the e total tota information used by the tie Board Doard of of ot lUg Big Game Control in setting the annual fall fail hunts STAN hunts STAN |
