OCR Text |
Show Fish. Wildlife Get Federal Aid Albuquerque-Utah will receive re-ceive almost one million dollars in federal aid funds for fish and wildlife programs in 1971, it was announced today by Acting Secretary Sec-retary of the Interior Fred J. Russell. Pittman - Robertson funds, earmarked for wildlife restoration restora-tion work, will total $613,425 and Dingell-Johnson funds for fish work will bring in another $217,736. Wildlife funds are derived from the federal excise tax on sporting arms and ammunition; fish project monies come from a similar tax on certain sport fishing equipment. Funds are made available through Interior's In-terior's Bureau of Sport Fisheries Fish-eries and Wildlife. Under terms of the federal law, states receive re-ceive amounts based on a formula form-ula using the states' area and the number of its fishing and hunting license holders. The states initiate the projects and are reimbursed for up to 75 percent of the cost. Projects which qualify include in-clude acquisition of land and water for wildlife and for public use, improvement of wildlife habitat, development of facil-i facil-i ities as well as research. 1 i I I i |