Show GAME department TO PLANT PHEASANTS IN 1945 an estimated pheasants will be planted by the state fish and game department this year doubling the normal planting ross leonard state fish and game director announced this week in normal years the state plants between eight and eleven thousand birds on the basis that hunters kill up to pheasants legally from this stock it can be assumed that the shooting this fall should be greatly improved hundreds of brooder pheasants are nesting at the springville Spring ville game farm and as soon as the eggs are hatched many of them will be trans planted to the brooder project at the new state prison and the ogden bay project plans were completed last week for the state to take over the pheasant farm site between helper and price and construction already has begun on the brooder houses and power facilities in addition to the regular crop of eggs taken from trapped ph pheasants e arants in the state 1000 pheasant t eggs have purchased from outside the state in an effort to protect this planted stock and make the U utah tah pheasant more of a native bi bird rd in in contrast to the transplanted hand raised species director leonard has revived the program of installing bird sanctuaries throughout the state where the parent birds and their broods may be safe to grow ur up naturally barring a continuance of the wet spring now that the birds are nesting utah should have anore a more successful pheasant shoot this fall |