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Show Utah To Increase Antelope Herds, Says Leonard Utah's antelope herds may get some new blood some of the lively Wyoming stock, said Ross Leonard, State Game Director. The state has asked Wyoming for 30" to 50 animals "from, the ' Laramie area where the state officials of-ficials of the Wyoming department depart-ment are conducting trapping operations op-erations for transplanting within the state. Lester Bagley, of the Wyoming Commission, has asked Utah to . present a letter to the Commission Commis-sion requesting the animals, Mr. Leonard said. The Wyoming Game Chief said that the petition peti-tion would likely be received favorably in view of Utah's need v for new antelope blood. "We will plant the antelope, if we get them, on our western range lands," Mr. Leonard pointed point-ed out. "We have antelope there now, but we need new and better stock to revitalize the herds," he said. "The state will also work toward to-ward predator annihilation in this area," he explained. "Our coyotes in that area are also responsible for keeping the herds down. The antelope kid when born is completely helpless and ' an easy prey for a single coyote." If the Utah petition is accepted, the animals would be trapped by the Wyoming experts and trucked truck-ed from the trips in Utah vehicles ve-hicles the game director said. Utah plans to trap in the Dag- ; gett county herds during Janu- ary, Mr. Leonard said. A portable i corral will be used similar to that employed by. the Wyoming trap- i pers. D.' M. (Mike) Gaufin, Big Game Supervisor for the depart- I mcnt, spent three days this week watching the Wyoming operation, opera-tion, studying antelope herds in ' the Laramie region. |