Show Sports In The Open Space Utah's Board of Big Game Control set the 1957 big game hunts for elk and Final regulations were set by members following the five annual pubic meetings held throughout the state a week A total of elk permits were authorized over 14 hunting units while antelope permits were set up for limited hunts in three No hunts were scheduled for the taking of either buffalo or moose when management information showed there were insufficient numbers of these animals to warrant a season this Bard members authorized the most diversified and liberal deer hunting seasons on record for this major big game when public and investigative reports showed the need Vo harvest more deer from many of the state's 62 herd units If the animals are be kept andor brought into balance with the available A special statewide deer sen for archery hunting only will run from August 31 through This season lasts three Including the long three-day Labor Day permit hunts will begin during late September while regular license seasons will get way on several prime hunting areas one week earlier than the general or Oc- tober The general season by legislative law must start on October or the nearest Saturday to October the opening date lof the general season this year is October The Board set another regulation allowing two special deer permits to each holder of big game provided that only one such special permit may be held for any one of the herd units where this type hunt is Other actions taken or a variation of the general season from to 37 days in for extended weekend for and give blanket authority to the department of fish and game to hold conditional hunts on five-day If and when needed to remove trespass or problem Spokesmen said the full listing of all big game and regulations would published and available to public within three to four Board members are Chairman J. Perry Lee J. Wells Welby Aagard and William D. F- July marked the beginning of the second year for the intensive planting of fish by plane into high mountain off-the-road waters over the 1956 marked first major effort by the department of fish and game to properly and regularly stock these lakes by Waters of the Boulder acid other high country areas are again included the program which proved so successful last A specially built tank used last year Is again being fitted in the department's Piper Cub for this A major portion of the small fish to be stocked will be of the native cutthroat species with substantial plants brook trout and lesser numbers of making up the Many of the small fish are now readied at the with the planting-plane expected to continue into Sz F- Utah's Fish and Game Commission will meet in- regularly set summer quarterly session on July Current and regular business matters are expected to occupy with expenditures for improvements being a chief item discussion and |