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Show Thousands of Hunters Open 1 Fall Sport Mon. in Utah i . i An estimated 125,000 deer hunters will go afield during the coming October 20-30 season in this most popular Utah big game hunt, acording to game de- sections over the state. Some have been constructed to allow hunter access into deer problem areas the San Juan - Elk Ridge country. Many roads built to pursue oil and gas well drilling will also serve hunters in getting into new areas. Most of these are in the southern and eastern sections of the state. While department spokesmen do not expect the high success ratio of the 80 percent kill of 1951 to be maintained this year, they do predict that a successful hunting season is again in the offing for Utah nimrods. partment spokesmen. Regulations for this hunt, as set by the Board of Big Game Control call for either sex hunting hunt-ing in most of the better deer hunting units over the state. The areas where only bucks may be taken are the Strawberry Valley, the large West Desert area, the general area of the San Rafael Desert and the Midway-Wallsburg District in Wasatch County. All other hunting districts, including those on the Wasatch front adjacent ad-jacent to the state's centers of population, are open to the hunting hunt-ing of either sex deer on the regular reg-ular hunting license. Sportsmen should note that several sev-eral small areas are closed to hunting. These include: an .National .Na-tional Parks; 500 yards on either side of the Parleys Canyon and, Immigration Canyon roads; six small sanctuaries, one each in the Measton, Vernon, Stansbury, Tin-tic, Tin-tic, Mt. Ogden, and Cache units. Continued dry weather of the past thirty days will find most of the deer herds still in the high country. It is noted that foliage is still heavy and the fire hazard is acute for this season. Hunters will find many new j access roads built dui-ing the past i year into prime deer hunting areas. These roads will be found in most |