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Show Program for Utah In Hunter Safety Chosen by NRA Utah's hunter safety program pro-gram was chosen as a national standard at a recent meeting of National Rifle Association leaders in Washington, D.C. The NRA Hunting and Conservation Con-servation Committee proposed an extensive revision of the NRA Hunter Safety Program, and recommended Utah's program pro-gram for the national standard. stand-ard. The recommendation received re-ceived a unanimous vote from the 75 members of the NRA Board. Lee Robertson, Utah Wildlife Resources Training Officer, was pleased to hear of the NRA decision. Robertson developed the Utah Hunter Safety program pro-gram over the past 15 years. He has trained nearly 8,000 a-dult a-dult instructors who, in turn, have trained and qualified over ov-er 180,000 youth in the hunter safety and outdoor survival program. The present four hour NRA hunter safety course has long been considered inadequate by Utah and several other states. These states require ten hours of training for youth under 21 years of age seeking their first hunting license. |