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Show Let's Get Wild Again next year? persons who receive a state income tax .refund will have the opportunity to donate part of their refund to the Nongame Wildlife Fund. By checking a box for $1.00, $5.00, $10.00 or other amount on their tax form they will be helping to assure the future of nongame wildlife in Utah. A total of $207,000 was donated in 1982 to help protect Utah's nongame wildlife (animals and fish composing over 85 percent of Utah's wildlife). Once again this year a higher percentage of taxpayers in Utah participated in the nongame tax check-off program than in any of the other twenty states with similar programs. Of the 355,000 tax filers receiveng refunds, 51,000 or 14.3 percent showed their concern for nongame wildlife by checking off a donation to this special fund. Utahn's donations to the "Do Something Wild" program are helping in many ways. Recovery efforts for endangered species, such as the reintroduction of the peregrine falcon into northern Utah, are being continued and expanded. In addition, new studies involving the Colorado River Squawfish, bald eagles, pelicans and other colonial nesting birds, Gila monsters and small owls have been initiated this year with tax check off monies. |