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Show Utah Hunter Safety Program Wins Honorable Mention Award Utah's hunter safety program won honorable mention in competition com-petition for the Annual Hunter Safety Award presented by the International Association of Game, Fish and Conservation Commissioners and donated by the National Rifle Association. The Missouri Deparment of Conservation was selected as the agency in the United States and Canada contributing the most in the field of hunter safety saf-ety training for 1973. Missouri was selected from among 26 states and Canada provinces competing for the annual award. aw-ard. Honorable mention also went to California, Kansas, Manitoba, Montana, New Hampshire, Ham-pshire, North Carolina, Penn sylvania and Wisconsin. Since the first hunter safety training program was initiated in New York in 1950, all states and Canadian provinces have adopted similar programs of firearms safety training. At present, 18 states and three Canadian provinces have legislation legis-lation requiring such training, while those remaining offer education on a voluntary basis either through a state agency or direct liason with the NRA. As of July, 1973, almost seven sev-en and one-half million students stu-dents have been trained in hunter hun-ter safety programs, with one-half one-half million trained in the first six months of this year. |