special features. District information officers are 

 also providing these services on a district basis. 



A major effort has been made to get television 

 and radio time as well as viewing audiences for 

 film. Most district I & E officers have regular radio 

 or television programs, or programs for both. Film 

 center space was enlarged over the biennium. 



Major films made include: Yellowstone 

 Recreational Waterway, Float the Yellowstone, 

 Missouri River Recreations Waterway, The Sun 

 River, Fish Hatcheries Today, Montana Big Game*, 

 Antelope Hunt*(hunter safety). Hunting the 

 Whitetail*, Montana Elk*, Prairie Grouse*, and 

 Outdoor Recreation* (*titles in Montana Outdoors 

 TV series) 



Films that will be made by Jan. 1, 1969 

 include: Sagebrush, Montana Game, Montana Fish, 

 Montana Recreation, Inside the Sun, Flathead 

 Recreational Waterway. The loan library averages 

 50 titles on hand and are used by civic, sporting, 

 church, educational and other groups, and are 

 shown to an audience of 30,000 each year, 

 averaging 24 people per showing 



Spots for radio and television are produced on a 

 continuous seasonal basis in the areas of hunter 

 safety, special permit deadline reminders, National 



Wildlife Week, Conservation Week, 

 landowner-recreationist relations and other things 

 to keep updating information to the public. 



Approximately 150 five-to-ten minute radio 

 programs on a multiplicity of subjects have been 

 made and distributed to a minimum of 24 Montana 

 radio stations. 



The hunter safety program, administered by the 

 department and taught by volunteer instructors, 

 has brought instruction in safe handling of firearms 

 to over 76,000 students. Each year an award for the 

 program has been won, and during 1967 a first 

 place award was presented to the Montana Fish & 

 Game Department for outstanding contribution in 

 the field of hunter safety. The award was given by 

 the National Rifle Association and competition 

 was among most states and Canadian provinces. 



During the biennium also there was a rigorous 

 program for schools and for organized youth 

 groups. 



The "3-C program", a landowner-recreationist 

 oriented program, has been instigated in all areas of 

 the state. The program's theme is consideration, 

 cooperation, and common sense. Its aim is to 

 promote better landowner-recreationist relations. 

 Eight dollars of the twenty-dollar Sportsmen's 

 License is earmarked for this program. 



The I and E man's job is not one entirely o( communications. Here District 2 

 Information Officer, Keith Seaburg, pumps stomach contents from a trout 

 while helping investigate suspected stream pollution. 



