| Show Seattle operation in Eastern Utah is given cold on offer to license wildlife to close lands to public for deer hunting r price N Depart- offer by the 5 Corporation to at the same fee on public advised that the H Is II receive any bv or and the is not isi to make such be on fit of ic to be a payment was ruling from the t Attorney lias the Utah Fish runs up on is leased for of cattle and 5 ruling again aspect of versus wildlife Hie vicious follow up came less than one month after the Preston Nutter Corporation made its offer to the Department of Fish and Game with the Utah 1964 DEER HUNTING PROCLAMATION which was published on July Under which runs from October to the range and private lands of the Nutter Corporation were included in the Under item the reader is referred to Range Creek Unit 27 B which is to be opened on 5 days notice for which licenses will be issued at a minimum charge of This area described almost In metes and bounds the private the access road built by and the range used exclusively by over the past sixty President of the stated that this can only be interpreted as a retaliation Rather than as stated in the due the action was taken with no investigation or deferral to the principal land owner In the does not sound like the reasonable judgment of experienced she rather the petulancy of a thoroughly spoiled Harold S. Director of the Utah Game Department disclaimed any responsibility for the action and placed full responsibility upon the shoulders of the Utah State Board of Big Game is Chairman of The most shocking aspect of f this whole situation was reported by who stated that the cattle representative appointed to the Big Game Board by the Utah Cattleman's Association put in motion the recommendation that carried to open the area for a minimum of six weeks of This was not an inter-agency Any practical cattleman is aware that cattle cannot be removed from the summer at this early They cannot be gathered or driven over trails and roads choked with extra hunters and their These hunters are being thrown exclusively on the Preston Nutter Corporation's leased and Taylor Grazing lands on which the Corporation pays rentals and It is a well known fact that the deer are where the cattle and at an early designated hunting period the cattle cannot be moved out of the Range cattle and hunters do not It appears the Fish Game Department is intent on putting the Preston Nutter Corporation out of the cattle business at a time when Federal moneys are being used in this particular county under the Regional Development Area plan to create jobs for the The Nutter Corporation contributes well over a hundred thousand dollars a year in this area and employs a considerable number of farm and ranch hands but no private industry can compete or survive for long under such At a time when the cattle industry is at an all time low no who depends solely on cattle for a livelihood can bear the extra burden of complete disruption of its business for a six week f The Preston Nutter Corporation is no It will be sary to hire guards and a fire control warden to protect vate due to the vindictiveness of the State of Department of Fish the Preston Nutter for the first time in recent closing all their properties to public hunting and for the first time in ita history will be open only to paid If the livestock industry is to continue through the years as a factor in Utah's economic plan it is time for some serious consideration of the problems at Research by the University of Utah has demonstrated its Continuing studies by Utah State University seek to improve and stabilize ranges and agricultural practices and at the same time encourage the of domesticated stock and Tourism and recreation arc important factors to be incorporated into the general economy but as long as a state agency uses recreation as a club to force an established industry out of business and creates a competitive rather than a cooperative all the efforts of the other state agencies will go for Two years ago the Nutter Corporation asked at a meeting held in that the problems concerning livestock and recreation be given It is believed that this should now be scheduled at a state level with all the involved agencies represented including the newly formed Pro-Utah At present an unfair burden is being placed on Wildlife must become a part of profitable ranch operations and not a detrimental |
