The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1946-11-28
Fish and Game
Well Attended

Der of Commerce Fish & Game
Committees meeting last Saturday
evening The opinion of the gath
ering, while not unanimous, favored
the proposed raise for resident
licenses, but was doubtful as to
the ACCESSIBILITY of the raise on big
game nonresident licenses to $50.
Following the good banquet SER
we'd in the gymnasium of the high
school by the Presbyterian ladies,
the meeting adjourned to the as
Sembly room where it was called
to order by President Paul Church.
President Church announced the
current membership is 1873 paid up
members, and stated there is room |
for more in the organization. He
gave everyone an invitation to be-
come a member.
The meeting was turned to Ed
BoyeS, chairman of the Fish and
Game Committee, who spoke on the
conditions of fish and game in Lin
coin county, and especially in the
Libby section. He advocated the
stocking of our streams with more
natives instead of rainbow trout. J
lie also recommended that a fed p;
eral project be developed in the Yak
country. The grazing of stock on :
the national forest was condemned, !
the speaker stating that game raised ,
here is of much greater benefit to
more people than are cattle and :
sheep The present all summer open
season on black bear was criticized. :,
a month In the spring and one month =,
in the fall being suggested as more =,
advisable
Boyes also expressed satisfaction i
regarding the abundance of game -
during the recent upland bird and A
game seasons. He stated that his n
committee heartily endorse the ac- r
ton of the State Fish & Game +
Commission in closing the entire
state to pheasant shooting this year.
The committee was disappointed e
in the inability of the members of NJ
the State Fish & Game Commission i'i
to be present as expected. Road -,
conditions resulted in regrets writ ~
ten or wired from all these gentle 41'
men who were scheduled to appear
On Saturday evenings program l-l n
John Blackford, Libby naturalist -
and wildlife writer had been secured Ieil
% give a discussion on his recent WI
5000 mile research trip into the ca
Southwest. Mr.. Blackford's talk was IA
# much interest to all He told wv
# seeing mountain sheep in the -
santa RoSas Mountains of Califor- ~
ia; he described the planting of elk
rom the Yellowstone country to re-
lace the shot out herds in the
logollon Rim country of Arizona, 80
nd told of an interesting trip into
re fascinating depths of Monument seV
anyoh, one of the BLACK beyond" 20
eSert canyons in northeastern Ari- re-
Dna, some go miles southwest of Dlo
re famed common corner of Colo VIZ. w,
ldo, New Mexico, Arizona and eilL
tah the only place in the United .lDli
tateS, where four states come to- ia
ether. The speaker also spoke of aio u
e cOlorful Apache Indians, a fierce
f-shot from the Navajos, who par ann
d from their more peaceful ~ ,
'ethren when the latter refused eIs
60 on the war path against the Ia4l
hites. Oou
Forest supervisor w. G. Guern- own
y was introduced and asked to
esent Lowell Adams, a represen- ID
tive of the Wildlife Service who
stationed at the Weylett Ranch NJ {
the Fisher River, working with
e Forest Experimental Station,
issoula. Mr. Adams stated he had ", &c {
)rked an area embracing an APP "eI
oXimate 100 square miles, extend Us
2 from the Highway down the once
sher River road to the old washed usua
t Jennings bridge, and north to mas ma
Ben Baenen Hunting Lodge on 1ilS
olf Creek. VIII
Stating that the eapoa buo+ars cons
re probahI,, co,n+ad ea-1oUai WI
'es he ren3arl,ed 49, he 10 the
imated the number Of hunters is al
man DAVIS of buntino rather tba9 surp.
'arate hunters. He finds that this Ior
ritorv had annroxinafeiv 4o0 regu-
n DAVIS of bIInting J,Ir;ng +be He
son Instead of most re tbe woul
1ters being from +hie county, % eithe
cent were from F1atbeaj % great
cent from Lake County, only 70 n
per cent from Lincoln Count date
ner cent from PonCFero and a ~, expir
+ from ont of stata 80. 80 An
ne from Hill So,n+v and az of Il
Ial ner cont 49, co1,Tdo,.1 tact
ner cent of al a. ting
tiers in the araa yere froro aae+ stand
the Continenta1 Divide oil ~ givin
ich shows the popularity of Lin 1ates
4 County deer hunting. per.
= from fbic ono small araa ~ Der I
In an acknowledged Whitehall Mans
ion only 1870 of the deer were w
'e ta1' Lne otner Pc peng mule speci;
ND1acAIaI4sl; AL tne oeer were Great
ana IN s9oa -eeha1tton- TICKS TuesC
roximately 500 Of the kill. Very -
deer were severely infested in well
manner. There was one case ton,
DOT worms, and one case of liver ton,
s-worms. The entire talk was terest
ructive with pertinent facts and the a
e a bit Of subtitle humor mixed The
the s
-, pictlu
0lRn ugnE OF the evening was Celv