Show Sports In Field sportsmen from Box Salt Utah and Weber Counties will have completed an i course in Survival Training by January Utah State Department of and Game spokesmen announced Highly endorsed by the National Rifle Association the course is to train qualified sportsmen as instructors in gun handling and survival This is the first it was further in training all first time hunters in the elements of hunting High hopes were expressed that the program would soon encompass the entire state and that all teenagers will the course try time they make application for their first hunting All available help is needed to i carry out ithe program and in- were urged to enroll in the training course at their earliest Beginning in January the in- I tor's course will again be taught on a regularly scheduled basis in Salt Lake Ogden and Meeting times and the beginning date for instruction win ibe made known at a later I Groups in cities other than I those mentioned who wish instructor training Were asked to contact Utah State Department of Fish and Game officials West North Salt Lake Utah Department of Fish and Game recently kicked off a program range on department owned it was announced The which is largely financed through the Federal Aid J to Wildlife Restoration In the next clear acres of land in Sanpete and Washington This under way the past month in was undertaken to Improve range conditions on state owned department spokesmen Much of the land to be cleared is now covered with pinion pine and I J j both of which are poor foods for game animals or domestic In many spots these larger plants literally choked out the preferred browse plants such as cliff rose and four-wing which have unable to compete for the mece-sary water to sustain Utah's buffalo herd to be holding its department of fish and game spokesmen today after the recent annual census of the This year's census 49 animals and represents the highest count of made in several department The made by showed 41 mature and 8 young The herd ranges in Wayne and Garfield counties in the vicinity of Hanksville arid ithe Henry The buffalo count along with aerial census of antelope and moose make up an important part of the regular Winter activities of the it was Information gathered from this work is important in the formulation of management plans for the coming |