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Document Number: 211
Classification: ORIGINAL: Newspaper
Location: USA, Wyoming, Park, Cody
Date Range: BTWN 1971 and 1971
Newspaper article about the seasonal closing of a hunting check station manned by FENTON, Stanley R..
Document Entry Number: 1
Information:
Page: 16
Wednesday, November 17, 1971
Transcription:
Check Station Closes
From the opening of the hunting season until it closes, these three persons, Thelma McArthur, Buster Fenton, and Grace Carlson, keep the Meeteetse Check Station open and operating 24 hours a day.
They register each hunter, recording his name, address, license number, the type of hunting license he holds, and the area he expects to hunt. A careful record is also kept of all game checked through the station as to its sex, the area killed, and with antelope the age is recorded. These records aid the Wyoming Game Management in planning for the furure.
Grace has just completed her tenth year at the Meeteetse Station, Thelma her eighth, and Buster his second year.
A visit to the station during busy hours finds the little building bulging with hunters asking a variety of questions while a long line of vehicles with more hunters and more questions are waiting to be checked in or out.
One can only marvel at the efficiency of the checkers as they calmly answer the multitude of questions while at the same time are busy recording the necessary information, selling game tags, writing guide permits, dashing out to stamp carcass coupons (often having to climb over a mountain of hunting gear to the critter piled on top), or taking information to post regarding lost items.
All big game hunting in the Meeteetse area closed Nov. 15 bringing the end of another busy season.
Meanwhile when the checkers closed the books and put their red shirts away for another year, they found that in 1971 they had 2607 hunters with a total of 419 elk, 811 deer, 295 antelope, and 2 sheep. In comparison, the 1970 figures recorded 2773 hunters, 360 elk, 977 deer, 214 antelope, 2 bear, and 1 sheep.
Associated Persons and Marriages:
FENTON, Stanley R. (Id# 4157) PictureOf, MEDIUM
FENTON, Stanley R. (Id# 4157) Profession, MEDIUM
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