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Show More Ducks and Geese I Reported This Year Season Opens Saturday, Oct. 21 At Sunrise And Closes Oct. 31; Requests To Hunt From All Over Country Utah duck hunters will see more ducks and geese during the 80-day season opening Saturday at 7:08 a. m., than during any season sea-son since the early 1920's. ucn is tne bright prediction of Dr. Jessop B. Low, expert in charge of Pittman-Robertson waterfowl wat-erfowl projects for the Utah Fish and Game Commission. In a special survey and report on the eve of the 1944 duck hunt, to Director Ross Leonard, Dr. Low declared : "Census of ducks on the important impor-tant state-owned marshes indicates indi-cates that Utah hunters will shoot at a major share of the huge 400 percent increase in the waterfowl population, estimated since the low of 1934-35. Leaders in the Utah field at the present time are the sporty gie en-winged teal, the pintail pin-tail or sprig, the widgeon or gray duck, and the baldpate." "Flights of mallards will probably proba-bly come in on the first cold storm, followed by blue bills, canvas-backs canvas-backs and the diving -ducks. Many cinnamon teal and locally-reared redhead3 have already left our marshes. "Last week, there were nearly a quarter million ducks and several sev-eral thousand geese on the 5,000 acres of state-owned marshes open op-en to public hunting. |