Show SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS IN THE FIELD r. BRUCE JENSEN Headquarters at Tabiona GAME WARDENS NO LONGER EXIST Do you know that we no longer have Game Wardens in the State of According to Officer Bruce the last legislature did away with wardens and brought into the position of conservation As the name conservation officer this is a man who does far more than the warden of days gone The old time warden was merely a law enforcement the modern day conservation officer is a of all He is a highly trained career special-Is capable of all the that arise in his In this he lias many They can roughly be broken down into three Public Fish and Game and Law To complicate his job even he wears these three hats at the same For while working on law enforcement of game management the conservation officer instinctively tries to promote good relations with the Frequently he is called upon to to service sportsmen's boy scout and In addition he is vitally concerned with the hunter safety program and either conducts the classes himself or assists A very important phase of public relations is working with the farmer and rancher to prevent or appraise damage caused by At the same time the conservation officer is attempting to promote better hunter landowner relations to insure a better harvest and less crop In addition all of the official public the C. O. is never really off He is flooded with thousands of questions at hours of the day and Since each conservation officer as also an auxiliary highway he is called upon many times to assist with everything from accidents to jail At all the conservation officer is aware of Ids law enforcement Regular and effective is a must however prevention of violations is the primary Management may be established by the biological but it Is the C. O. who gathers and often helps inter pret the This includes range deer and elk counts and sex ratio surveys on upland game birds of all Many conservation officers maintain a large trapping and program designed to further our knowledge about the migration of various animals and He often is called upon to trap beaver when they are doing damage to irrigation All in this is a man with a never ending job and not e-nough hours in a day or days in a week to ever caught He is the best friend life has ever conservation SF Observance of National Wildlife scheduled this year for the week of March will highlight the theme of of Wetlands to Insure Waterfowl for the The Utah Wildlife Federation an affiliated local sportsmen groups over the State are sponsors of this week as are affiliate members of the National Wildlife Federation in all States of the They will carry the theme to all citizens through displays and other Objectives of the week this year are to alert all citizens to the need of conservation of natural water retention to create an understanding of the importance of wetland to waterfowl and other and to encourage all people to become informed as to the relationship between man and all |