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Show ervoir water users and department j officials. This water has previously been unproductive of fish life because it is completely drained each irrigation irri-gation season. An abundance of natural fish food is expected to produce legal and larger trout for planting into adjacent waters in the Manti Mountains. It will remain re-main closed to fishing. Director J. Perry Egan said of this project, "We are appreciative of the water users attitude in this matter. The department will construct con-struct a catch pond below the reservoir res-ervoir from which trout raised herein will be transported this fall to many of the fine fishing waters nearby. We feel this will prove another prime move in the direction direc-tion of raising fish at less cost, while at the same time furnishing healthy wild fish for planting from waters that have heretofore been producers of few if any, game fish." ridge in Utah during the past two years. A letter of commendation in appreciation ap-preciation for their long years of service was sent to former commissioners commis-sioners Newell Frei and E. N. Lars-sen. Lars-sen. Several business items were discussed dis-cussed and referred to the department depart-ment for further investigation and presentation to the September meeting of this body. Commissioners K. E. Bullock, Golden Sanderson, J. Allen Browne, Robert B. Mitchell, and W. Rulon White were all present to make a full quorum at the meetings. Huntington reservoir was just added to the growing list of Utah waters being used by the State Fish and Game Department to raise "wild" trout. The reservoir was planted with 38,000 two and three inch rainbow trout following an agreement reached through a meeting of res- Fish and Game Mews Motes . . . This year's schedule for hunting upland game birds was a chief order of business during the July 10 and 11 regular quarterly meeting meet-ing of the Utah Fish and Game Commission. The Commission set the opening date for pheasant hunting as November Nov-ember 7. This season will open at 8:00 a.m. as set by statute during the 1953 legislative meeting. Bag limit, length of season, and other factors governing this hunt will not be drawn up until field counts detremine success of the spring pheasant hatch. A two day, special permit sage grouse hunt was set for September Septem-ber 19-20. Permits totaling 1,135 were allotted over seventeen hunting hunt-ing units, subject to a reduction in any or all districts if late July counts indicate less grouse should be taken. As with the pheasants, later counts of grouse populations are necessary in determining the harvest of these birds because of an unusually cold wet spring ef- fecting the birds nesting habits. Hunting areas, number of permits per-mits for each, dates of aplication, and other rules and regulations will be shown in a proclamation to be published in early August. Mourning dove hunting was scheduled September 1, with the season running through September Septem-ber 13. Rules and regulations for this hunt are subject to final approval ap-proval by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Wild-life Service. Ten doves will be both bag and possession limit during this season. All counties of the state will be open to mourning dove hunting except Davis and Weber, along with parts of Salt Lake and Carbon counties. A game bird, or combination fishing and hunting license is required re-quired for hunting pheasants and mourning doves. A possessor of such a license will be eligible to apply for a sage grouse permit. As in past years, public drawings will be held for the permits in sage grouse units that are oversubscribed. over-subscribed. ' Other Commisison actions during dur-ing the meetings included the following: fol-lowing: Approved substantial salary increases in-creases for department personnel, subject to approval of the State Finance Commission. Approved department participation participa-tion in the building of three game access roads into big game-range areas. Authorized financial and other assitance in cooperation with the Forest Service to reseed 32,000 acres of rangeland in the Pinto area of the Dixie Forest. Approved a trash fish poisoning program to be implemented during dur-ing evtremely low water conditions expected in Several Southern Utah waters this year. Listened to the recently completed com-pleted audit report of the department depart-ment finances. At conclusion of the report the commisisoners gave a vote of confidence and thanks to department personnel responsible for keeping these records accurately accurate-ly and up-to-date. Denied application for exchange use of a section of state-owned marshland for privately owned lands. Discussed and . approved a department de-partment report covering the program pro-gram to establish the chukar part- |