Show sportsmen may participate in seeding Re program as result of wildlife meeting at pan panguitch 9 aitch n action which may proe to be the co coined nier stone toward building I 1 stone ig a be batter t letrel between tincie and stockmen stoc kmen in fit lie state vas v as taken at ii a meeting of tha wildlife federation hold in wednesday evening of last neek the meeting was attended by da director ross ROBS leonard of the state fish and game commission state fish and ga game tile commissioners fraik pace of richfield and jack clay of salt lake city were also present and took some part pait in the discussions others who took au an active part were don moffatt of the grazing service robt II if park supervisor of 0 the powell national forest and jules renaud ren iud local conservationist for foi the soil conservation service W B pace of the richfield clothing co richfield and father of commissioner pace was BIS a guest it at the meeting director leonard was the first speaker of the evening and he gave some figures on the deer counts and deet deer kills hills during tile past few years leiis he stated that ln in tile the 1942 season there were 63 deer killed in the state and that in 1943 some 45 were taken ile he mentioned that most sportsmen and many others felt that these figures were higher than the increase Inci ease imong among the herds but that teed feed conditions on an tile the ranges wert weri li ardley ample to sustain the present deer population in continuing lie he ment mentioned lonea that tha unless something was done to alleviate alevia alev late te the range teed feed problem it would be necessary to further decrease the deer population or to make further cuts on ainu and sheep lie sug su bubla wat mat some soine son sell of cooper juliun in it a re seeding program pro gral nay help heip to ellse conditions ni in mentioning we hie re seeding plan director leonard credited 1 11 F 11 brulin and the hie panguitch Illie iii embers with fathering tile the idea and stated that a committee front the pan ilan duitch club had discus discussed sd the plin plan with hini thu latter part of january at his ortice in salt lake city considerable discussion was entered into with mr air moffatt Mot tatt Sper supervisor visor park and jules renaud taking leading positions mr Al moffatt voiced his hearty accord to such a program and stated that his department would woula be more moi e than willing to cooperate lie he otfried d all the assistance his department could give ghe and said he was as ready to go to work at any time supervisor park paik told of 0 conditions ou on the powell forest foiest he said that while no deer lent lein had materialized to any aily damaging extent as yet it could easly be in ill the making he told of his experiences empei denees on the kaibab and rish Fisli lake forests and tola those present that he thought such conditions could be averted libie it if a res receding eding program was begun soon boon and carried out in a proper manner mr mi renaud gaye gae some facts and figures on oil ress eding and the problems conf confronted con la in that type of work vork he stated that while there were some people in garfield Garri eld county and that they depended mainly upon the livestock industry ind for a livelihood present range lauge conditions were able to properly support bup port only home bonie 2200 people in that industry he gave gao this condition as a ill major ajor reason that something must be done and done soon and stated that there was no douht doubt that eliat the ranges could be brought back to ah where ere they would support near twice the number 0 of livestock lif estock they were capable of supporting at the present time ile he offered several methods by which it would be possible to aid in the re seeding program now continued on last page sportsmen offer aid sri it 00 seeding Re S 1 e 0 1 diky plan continued irona page 1 one lin under derway way Inthe in he county and offered tho the complete cooperation of his debart department mentin la such work several were heard to remark following the meeting that it was the first time a sportsmens sports mens group had offered anything in the tha way of a remedy tor for the con it was felt that such I 1 plan may be worked out to an advantage to both stamen ana livestock interests intel ests and may result in a better feeling among those most vitally concerned before bedfor e the close of the meeting A L L elmer pres president iden of the Fan gultch organization zatic in was a chosen 0 as chairman of a comm committee it to further investigate possibilities sib littles ties of further action on the plan the officers of the organization were named as members member of the committee to work with pr e aident elmer and they were wells instructed to solicit the aid of the state floh and game gama commission the forest service grazing service soil conservation service stoc stock kmen mens i groups sportsmen and any others who may wish to participate prior to the meeting mr air renaud showed some moving pictures showing effects effects of re seeding and proper grazing on range landd land and the need for the care ot of forests garfield county news I 1 |