Show Utah Hunters to Be Without Open Chicken Season r Utah sportsmen are planning hunting trips to bordering states state for tor chicken shooting this season following the announcement of ot State Fish and Game Commissioner D. D H. H Madsen that there will be no open season on upland birds 1 In iii Utah this tIllS year ear Some few tew have already departed for tor Wyoming where the season seaon opens August 1 J. while many others are contemplating ing trips to Nevada Montana and especially Idaho which has twenty twenty- seven open counties countes this season There is still a possibility that a short open season will wl be held for tor quail and mourning doves although that matter mater will vill be decided at a later date sometime within twenty days of ot the usual S SIn In his announcement the com com- said The fish and gamo game laws of ot Utah provide It shall be unla unlawful wul for tor any person or persons to shoot at kill kiil killor kil kilor or hunt for tor any i blue grouse rutted ruffed grouse willow grouse sage rage hen pheasant quail quai Hungarian partridge or to rob rol or destroy any nest egg or young of ot any of ot said birds provided however however however how how- ever that when the state commissioner commis comini- finds aft after r Investigation that there Is an increase of any ol ot such birds and that they are not In danger of ot being exterminated he lie may declare open seasons with lImits limits lm- lm lim lIm- its upon the taking or killing of af t such game birds In keeping with this provision a careful investigation of ot the Dumber umbe of ot upland game birds to be found l u the sta state stale It was made Game wardens Interested sportsmen sports sports- men and sportsmens sportsmen's organizations throughout the state were consulted consult consult- consul consul- ed The result of ot these investigations tons would indicate that in certain certain tam tain sections there are a considerable considerable considerable consider consider- able number of both sage hens and grouse but due to the extreme drouth which has resulted In the tile drying up of ot man many springs and small smal streams a concentration of ot tese these birds has near the remaining watering places In view of ot the tile Information gathered and the almost unanimous decision of ot the sportsmen that no open season should be had this year it has been determined that the season remain closed on sage hens and grouse until 1927 This will wi also be the case with wih pheasants The question queston of an open season on mourning doves and quail quai has not yet been determined These birds are sufficiently numerous to Justify a short open season but whether it will wl be possible to supervise tho the hunting so that the pheasants may not be seriously Interfered with wih Is yet to be determined Already a number of ot associations have recommended recommended recommended rec rec- that there be no open quail season seaon |