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Show Fish - Game Dept. Plans Marshland Utilization Tour Director J. Perry Egan of the Utah State Fish and Game department, de-partment, together with specialists special-ists from the game department, including R. L. Turpin, in charge of Federal Aid; Noland Nelson, superintendent of Og-den Og-den Bay refuge; and Earl Anderson, Ander-son, chairman of the future dc velopment committee of the Utah Wildlife Federation, will shortly begin a tour of northern Utah to map preliminary plans for a complete utilization of Utah's marshlands by hunters. Included in the program also are tentative plans for rehabilitation rehabili-tation of areas where good land and waste water are now found. In Box Elder county alone it is estimated that there are 250,-000 250,-000 acres of lands that need further development. After the building of Bear River refuge, large quantities of waste water spread out over the saline flats that were entirely en-tirely barren. Each year there has been a continual improvement improve-ment in these areas until now it has become one of the best feeding grounds, and also one of the best hunting areas in northern Utah. But to date, be-case be-case there are no roads leading into these areas, and no waterways water-ways that will permit the utilization utili-zation of ordinary boats, these marsh lands cannot be hunted. |