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Show ik8 t .V X X t- x I x Xvvv . x x ; ; K: t. -.- Boyd W. Sorensen, fire control technician first class, USN, son 0f Mr. and Mrs. Boyd W. Sorensen of 422 Brook'side Drive, Springville, makes a minor adjustment to ra.dar equipment on a gun director while serving aboard the destroyer USS Jenkins. REGULATIONS COVERING 2 GAME BIRD SEASONS, TRAPPING, SET FOR STATE before sunrise until sunset except for the opening hour of noon, October Octo-ber 8. The Strawberry Reservoir and valley were opened to waterfowl hunting for the first time in many years. Closed areas include the Little Salt Lake in Iron County, Borham Reservoir, Salt Springs, Miners-1 Scheduling regulations covering two game bird seasons and the fall trapping season were chief orders of business as the Utah Fish and Game Commission met September 13 in quarterly session at department depart-ment offices in Salt Lake City. A general three day shoot was set for the annual fall pheasant season, with a longer hunt in ten of the better counties. There will be no open esason in San Juan and Rich counties. Following a study of field surveys sur-veys showing a heavy crop of birds this year, the following counties coun-ties were opened to five days of hunting: Cache, Boxelder, Weber, Davis, Salt Lake, Utah, Duchesne, Uintah, and Emery. A seven day season was scheduled sched-uled for Millard County as a management man-agement experiment to determine effects of a longer shoot. Checking Check-ing stations will be set up covering cover-ing this county along with several additional wardens on hand in the fields during the latter days of this longer season. Only cock birds will be legal game. Daily bag limit is three; possession limit after the first day is six. Opening day of the pheasant season was set earlier in the year as 8:00 a.m., Saturday, November 6. The commission set a quail season sea-son in eight counties to run concurrently con-currently with the pheasant season sea-son in those counties. This means five days of quail shooting in Salt Lake, Uintah and Utah counties with a three day season in Grand, Morgan, Summitt, Wayne and Washington. In Washington County an additional addi-tional three day quail hunt was scheduled for December 3, 4 and 5 when field reports showed an exceptionally ex-ceptionally good crop of birds in the county this year. ' ( Daily bag limit ,for quail is eight birds; possession limit sixteen. six-teen. The commission last month set Friday noon, October 8, as the opening day of the migratory waterfowl season. The 80 day shoot will run through December 26. Final regulations now scheduled include the continued restricted use of air-thrust boats for duck and goose hunting this fall. New this year is the requirement require-ment that all owners of such boats must register them with the Department De-partment of Fish and Game. The assigned license number must then be written in one foot letters on the boat for identification purposes. pur-poses. Launching lanes were allowed allow-ed into restricted hunting areas from Syracuse and Farmington Bay. All Great Salt Lake marshes north of the Lucin cutoff will be open to air boat traffic. As in past recent seasons the balance of the state remains closed to the use of airthrust boats in waterfowl hunting. Daily bag limit for ducks is nine birds, possession limit fifteen. In either case, three must be 'bonus ducks which again this season, will be the widgeon or pintail species. Bag and possession limit for geese are one and the same, or six birds. Only three may be of the dark or Canadian species. Shooting hours are one-half hour |
