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Show Pheasant Program Outlined By Game Commission The State Fish and Game Commission Com-mission has, during the past year, embarked on a larger pheasant raising program in an attempt to better the hunting conditions in Utah. Pheasants were raised in 4 field rearing farms at Springville Ogden Bay Bird Refuge, Price, and the State Prison Farm. In an attempt to find answers to some of the questions which are continually arising regarding pheasants in Utah, the State Fish and Game Department and Utah Wildlife Research Unit at the U S A C are cooperating in a study which it is hoped will solve some of the problems. During the past season a total of 387 male pheasants were leg banded and released in various parts of the Uintah Basin. Hunters Hunt-ers in the Uintah Basin who shoot banded birds are urgently requested to send in the band number to the State Fish and .Game Department, Capitol Building, Build-ing, Salt Lake City, or to any one of the following: Henry Slaugh. Vernal; Harry Sprousc, Roosevelt: Roos-evelt: Dave Thomas, Duchesne; J. B. Low, Utah State Agricultural Agricultu-ral College, Logan, Utah. Some of the questions which the game commission hopes will be answered by the study are the following: (1) The best age at which the pheasants should be released from game farms to insure in-sure a maximum number surviving, surviv-ing, (2) to determine the best possible pos-sible dates for liberating the pheasants from the game farms. (3) the number of farm reared birds which survive until the hunting season, (4) the number of pheasants which can be harvested harvest-ed from a given area of agricultural agricul-tural land. The answer to these and other questions, it is hoped, will lead to belter pheasant management man-agement and eventually better pheasant hunting in the state. |