Show FISH and GAME utah cibit L lali and gaino commission member of oc the state stale fish ana aiu game commis commission ston taylor gral ilig flig device and forest foiest denied of from the reg regional lonal office were in it thursday day of wit last vei week they liny met inet with the hie local oca game gains warden aud and loial local tor for est officers concerning tit thy annual leer deer counts tor for the present year vear it lias has been the plan plait of these organizations for the past nu nun ber bei ot of years to secure mors mora ac curate data reg regarding arding numbers of deer their coad condolon tion and use is niad by them of the ranges langes plan were eie made for or the survey to be conducted adjacent and within the powell and dixie forests the big game committee launched five big game counts and range surveys this week in southern ut utah ah following brief conferences with local wardens of 0 o the state fish and game department part parti ment tient according to director ross leonard other conferences will be scheduled from time to time until 25 such counts have been completed said the game chief the co minitte formed to advise the game commission and the board of big ganie game control regarding exact range and herd hera conditions consists of chairman allan C randle of the game commission harold J burbank of the grazing glazing service sen ice and orange olson olsen of the forest service the committee was to visit beaver monday of last week cedar city wednesday pan gultch thursday richfield friday and ephraim saturday take 1 charge or of the surveys we axe clive stewart stew art bland fox lavere king A J peterson arnold christensen douglas lee merrill hand roy garrard golden ira page dick benn bennett ett henry elwood tiffany dave thomas verda kendall 0 V anderson jess winn riley osborn elwin cloward othello riley cliff ashman bill dalton verne leavitt 0 stratton and frank daly thirteen elk ten cows and three calves which formerly roamed the hinterlands of mt alt nebo are now at home to their friends in eastern portion of the uintah mountains it I 1 was a s disclosed this week by diorec director tar ross leonard of the utah fish and gamo game commission trapped ly by warden veada ver da kendall near mona ilona the colonists were transported by warden henry to start life anew where more mora spacious winter ranges are aie available unlike deer they wont find continued on last page X FISH and GAME Hiti continued from page one their way back to their original habitat either leonard said it was explained that nebo herd could 0 id stand this depletion armed at the mutual betterment ot of the transplant ees and the uintah herd utah duck hunters found shooting as good during the 1944 season as in 1943 but there was a slight drop in total numbers of waterfowl the past season possibly because of a a much earlier freez eup mid novem ber according to the reports of jessop B low supervisor of state slate wildfowl refuges for the utah fish and game commission |