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Show tain lakes, the shipment is undergoing un-dergoing hatching operations in the Kamas, Whiterocks, Glenwood and Panquitch hatcheries. hatch-eries. Another shipment of 600,000 rainbow trout eggs was received re-ceived late last week at the Panquitch Hatchery where they are currently undergoing processing pro-cessing in the hatchery trays. Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater great-er ones invariably slink in after af-ter it. Baltasar Gracian. ' i V 1 V 1 h -4 - t-J. i'-lV4 WWte A shipment of approximately 40 sand grouse were received at the department's game farm at Price this week. The birds, wild trapped in India by a Nevada department biologist, were received by the Utah Department under a cooperative co-operative agreement between the two states of experimentation experimenta-tion in raising the birds under game farm conditions for subsequent sub-sequent release into wild areas of both states. Prospects for the sand grouse in Utah, according to department depart-ment spokesmen, are rather good. Ideally the bird will eventually inhabit rather dry areas in the western desert. In size, the bird is slightly smaller than the quail. Both birds are tan to light brown in color with the male showing an iridescent sheen to his fea- 30, and all other regulatory measures were set by commission commis-sion action last December. Opening date of the general deer season is set by legislature law to begin each year on the Saturday nearest October 20, which is October 21 this year. Length of this season, and other regulatory measures covering cov-ering the deer hunts, are set about July 1 each year by the Utah Board of Big Game Control. Con-trol. Regulations covering pheasant pheas-ant season length and bag limits will be set mid-summer as the results of field investigations investi-gations by department conservation conser-vation officers are submitted. Activities at the department's depart-ment's fish producing plants continue to move forward at a rapid pace this week continuing con-tinuing shipments of trout eggs received for initial processing. Latest shipments of egg stocks for raising and subsequent subse-quent planting was the arrival of 1 million brook trout eggs from comemrcial sources in Washington. Ultimately to be used in planting high raoun- thers and having a broken, dark brown line, resembling a necklace around his neck. These birds, it was pointed out, are well adapted to the desert country. Like mourning dove and other members of the pigeon family, they possess pos-sess glands in the throat region re-gion which secrete a highly nutritive substance called "pigeon "pi-geon milk" upon which the young are fed evclusively during dur-ing their first weeks of life. When mature the birds will often fly to desert waterholes for their daily water requirement require-ment returning then to range over their preferred desert habitat for food. Though no releases of the birds have been made in Utah to date, the Nevada department has released over 900 of these birds during the past year. The new shipment of sand grouse will be placed under observation with several other species of exotic game birds at the Price Game Farm. With the scheduling of the opening date of the 1961 pheasant phea-sant season by the Fish and Game Commission two weeks ago, the department of fish and game in the interest of sportsmen who annually schedule sched-ule vacations to coincide with the outdoor seasons, today listed list-ed the outdoor calendar for 1961. General angling season opens June 3; General deer season opens October 21 and Pheasant season opens November 4. The general fishing season continues through November |