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Show GAM BOARD MAKES REVERSAL ON DEER KILL DECISION The Board of Big Game Control Con-trol this week altered its stand on three sections of the state and changed deer-take figures to correspond cor-respond more closely to what the sportsmen actually wanted. The Board met in the offices of the Utah Fish and Game Department Depart-ment to hear open discussions on three critical areas Lost Creek in Weber County, Currant Creek in Washington-Duchesne counties, and the Vernon Grantsville area in Tooele County. The Tooele appeal, led by members mem-bers of the Tooele County Wildlife Wild-life Federation, won its campaign to save the bucks in an effort to preserve some of the brood stock.. The buck hunt was closed this year on portions of the Vernon and Grantsville areas. There were also 500 deer cut out of the special spe-cial hunts in Tooele County. It took a petition of landowners representing 46,000 acres in Lost Creek area to bring the board up to a reconsideration of the deer take in this area. The landowners protested the taking of any hornless horn-less deer on their lands, holding that the buck hunt alone would take more than enough deer from their region. The board cut the 600 doe kill to 250, these animals to be hunted hunt-ed only on lands which were not included in the petition. Most of the landowners in question were (from the . upper region which means that Lost Creek doe hunting hunt-ing will be held only around the mouth of the canyon this fall. On Currant Creek, the board still didn't come to terms with the landowners, who, it was learned, planned to have a double hunt this year The Currant Creek take was cut from 500 of either sex postseason post-season to 400 does during the regular reg-ular season. |