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Show 'Same Department Winter Feeding Plan Moves Ahead The State Fish and Game' department de-partment has paid about 510,000 for hay alone in its state-wide deer feeding program, and this is aside from the hay which has been fed by individuals and individual in-dividual clubs cither with or without the supervision of the game department, according to R. L. Turpin, state game director. direct-or. Additional snowfall has creat-ed creat-ed additional problems. Mr. Turpin Tur-pin said in commenting- on the state's current "save the deer" campaign, in the crisis which has hit the state's big game herds and j game birds. I "But we have managed to check a lot of the trouble with our many feeding grounds, plus the cooperation we have received from citizens in all sections of the state," the game chief explained. ex-plained. "We are losing some deer. Dogs are bad, but not like 'they were. The game animals have located the .feeding grounds and have collected in these areas. Aid by the sportsmen in feeding, predator control, and the cooperation co-operation by residents in the highly-populated areas have all aided materially during the record-breaking cold snap and snowfall." snow-fall." The feeding campaign must continue, according to Mr. Turpin. Tur-pin. who pointed out that the Carbon-Emery Wildlife federation federa-tion under President Jack World was shipping 100 tons of hay to Salt Lake City. The federation is loading the hay without charge, the state having paid for the, hay in Emery county. " The transportation ' is being furnished by the Carbon Freight lines and the freight office of the Rio Grande Motor Way. Hay will be unloaded in Salt Lake valley by volunteer sportsmen, leaving the entire cost of the project pro-ject at the cost of the hay alone, Mr. Turpin said. The hay is being loaded by a belt feeder supplied, without cost, by the Utah Poultry Poul-try Producers association. The deer feeding in Salt Lake valley has been under the direction direc-tion of Arvon Johnson, who has been running 12 feeding stations. Volunteer jeep posse workers have cared for five of the grounds; the state has handled the rest. Total consumption of hay alone has been about 275 tons this winter that already purchased pur-chased by the state, and including includ-ing the shipment from Carbon and Emery. Of this amount, 158 tons have been obtained or used in Salt Lake county. All this is without mentioning the thousands thous-ands of sportsmen in all sections sec-tions of the state who have met the deer feeding problems on their own, and with the help of wardens. By "sportsmen" we mean everyone farmers, businessmen, busi-nessmen, cattlemen, and all those who have given a hand in this emergency. "Now, all we need is a break in the weather," the director concluded, con-cluded, "and we can just go on working and hoping." |