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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1977
Page
5
Local outdoors columnist outlines turning a broken fishing rod tip into an inexpensive ice fishing rod. A three to four foot tip, an eight to twelve inch wood handle, and two nails provide a simple line guide system for fast perch from shallow water.
Hope area Sportsmen's Club concludes its first year with plans for the coming year. Key actions include sponsoring the Oden Hunter Safety Course to start in March at Oden Grange and promoting nests for ducks and geese on the Clark Fork River Delta.
The 1977 Golden Age and Golden Eagle Passports offer park access under federal rules. The Golden Age Passport, free for 62 and older, grants entry for the holder and up to accompanying people plus 50 percent discounts on federal facility use fees. The Golden Eagle Passport, $10 for under 62, allows entry for a private vehicle with accompanying persons but excludes camping and similar fees. About 490,000 Golden Age Passports and 155,000 Golden Eagle Passports were sold in 1975. Passports and brochures are available at designated fee areas, National Park Service offices in Washington DC and regions, Forest Service offices, and other distribution points. In Idaho Craters of the Moon National Park accepts the Golden Age Passport.
The Bonner County Sportsmen Association antler display drew over 100 residents at Sandpoint Community Hall. Antler racks on display numbered 40 to 50 and awards went to Don Hale for elk rack, Veldonna Armstrong for best female trophy, Mike Cramer high honors, Bob Kirk non typical whitetail, Hull typical mule deer, and Ron Waits non typical male rack. Jim Thompson becomes president with Eddie Nordgaarden as vice president Lonnie Piehl treasurer and Bob Moore secretary.
The National Wetland Inventory project of the Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service has begun operational mapping of the nations wetlands. It will classify and map all coastal wetlands and parts of the Dakota prairie pothole and Mississippi delta regions during fiscal year 1977, starting in Florida, with completion expected by 1979. The project aims to build a national data base in map and computer form to store and update wetlands data.
Idaho Fish and Game will get 182 400 dollars in federal funds under a two year interim agreement with the U S Bureau of Reclamation to aid mitigation for fish and wildlife losses from the Teton Dam construction. The package totals a little over 1 million dollars and negotiations on the remaining funds continue. The agreement covers mitigation for the dam era but not flood damage from last June's collapse. Gene Deftens says the funds free money to manage Cartier Slough and Tex Creek lands for big game and waterfowl.
Pre-registration is open for a three credit wildlife resource conservation course through the University of Idaho Office of Continuing Education in Coeur d Alene. Dean Carrier will teach topics on forest and rangeland ecology and wildlife management with a January 17 start meeting Mondays 7 to 10 pm in NIC Administration Building room 205. Residents pay 60 and non residents 75.
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