Show Waterfowl Numbers I I Decrease This Year The 1973 midwinter waterfowl inventory conducted by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources shows a decrease of birds from AL principal waterfowl cited I cold weather as the reason for populations to be down from birds in 1972 to this Each during the same week in all states in the Pacific Flyway take inventory of waterfowl along selected routes to determine Regenthal stated that individual states may have fewer but it that population trends are determined from the flyway as a He explained that cold weather in Utah this year probably caused waterfowl to move so Arizona and California may have higher Sf numbers of MANY AREAS inhabited K by waterfowl in northern Utah have been Reports in southern Utah indicate bird populations along the Virgin not part of the survey i have TRANSPLANTED MOOSE MOVEMENTS MONITORED t The first project to monitor movements of moose is being conducted by the Division of Wildlife Resources on four of the r animals which were moved last week to Manti Mountain I. from the Uinta RADIOS ARE attached by collar tn one old and one young cow and one young and one old These animals' locations will be transmitted to Division of Wildlife Resources planes flying over the The study will determine whether the animals are relatively sedentary on their new site or if one or more of the age classes migrates from the Results will aid biologists to know at what age class moose are most stable for All the of transplanted animals are SI mared colored collars so all observations will be S reported to the Pi THE MOOSE were trapped R along the Bear River drainage in the Uinta Moun-M after being from helicopters with an mobilizing Captured animals were transported w with slings suspended from the helicopters to vehicles and Tl moved to the head of Fish Creek Canyon above Scofield 3 Each animal was human for only 4 Jl Norman chief of Game said that the animals were agile and completely recovered at the time of their They were given to counteract the of the immobilizing Hancock noted that the Carbon County Road Depart- was very helpful by opening the roads leading to Fish Creek Canyon to enable Division pickups to reach the release AND NOW EVERYONE'S CONSCIENCE IS CLEAR A Utah Justice Peace was surprised when a man with a guilt-ridden conscience came to him with a citation for killing a cow He had turned himself in to a Division of Wildlife Resources conservation who issued the The justice fined the man for the illegal TWO WEEKS later the same man returned to admit he had not related all of the facts in his first He did not tell all when I was here I shot at a two-spike bull but it kept Just at that moment the cow came into and before I took a good I shot When I went back I found I had killed the The judge told him to forget about the matter because he had no can't forget the man placing his hand over his have a feeling in and I have come to settle with My church leaches me to always have a clear THE JUDGE then fined him for killing the bull The man paid the fine and again with his hand over his will relieve me in TURKEY TRANSPLANT EFFORTS HAMPERED Snow in too abundant quantity in southeastern Utah has hampered Division of Wildlife Resources turkey transplanting operations so far this THUS 13 turkeys have been trapped and released near Enterprise The heavy snow has made movement by biologists into turkey habitat areas necessitating utilization of Division biologists are scouring several areas to locate turkey populations large enough to allow transplanting of some of their |