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Show ces estimates that female potguts produce one litter of up to . 6 offspring per year and with a reduction of their 1 natural predators steps must be taken to curb the growing population. Ranchers and farmers can obtain licenses to use strychnine strych-nine based poisons through the Utah Department of Wildlife Resources. License-sees License-sees are required to complete com-plete a class or a home study course in the safe use of poisons as required by the Department, of Agriculture. The Extension Service in . Coalville reports that 25 new licenses were issued in February, For more information, informa-tion, call: 336-5921. L&& &p Sits t : J$d, ' - Ground squirrels know its spring Potguts are a sure sign of spring but riot necessarily a ' welcome one. According to the University of Utah Extension . Service, the wide ly dispersed member of the ; " rodent family causes .severe,; damage to pastures, range- ,, land and grain fields. . : , Citellus . Armatus, known . locally 7as ' the .Uinta ground o squirrel or fpotgut becomes active in early spring. Within the past two weeks, he has become visible, scurrying . over receding- patches of , snpw and dashing across the "highway. He lunches on any t ( new': growth he can find , (alfalfa jau'd potato crops . .- being among his favorites) and spends the: rest ,of the s day tunneling underground All; of 'this hectic;" activity ' however ceases bylmid July ' ;iw.hen; thexpotgut returns Jto ; ;hiberatici.p J Despite this relatively brief appearance; Citellus , - Armatus is able - fo wreck havoc ' with local crops. . - The Division of Wildlife Resour-, |
