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Show year. Young birds from state game farms at Springville, Price and Ogden Bay were released in farm areas after the roosters had been banded with a metal leg band bearing a number and address ad-dress of the fish and game department. de-partment. Protect Female Pheasants. Sportsmen Urged Pointing out that there has been a general reduction m the pheasant population throughout the United Stales, Ross Leonard. , fish and game director, today appealed to all sportsmen to make every effort to orotect female fe-male birds during the three day Sanson Nov. 2. 3 and 4. hunting if sportsmen insist on killing In ns", Leonard warned. "This is despite the fact that we have increased considerably the output from our bird farms and have .set up a number of bird sanctuaries. ' Here are the salient points in this year's proclamation which pheasant and quail hunters are asked to observe: Shooting opens each day at 7 a.m. and closes each day at 5:30 p.m. Rifles, revolvers and pistols are prohibited in the taking of upland up-land birds and no shotgun pellets pel-lets larger than No. 2 may be used. It is unlawful to mutilate the carcass of any pheasant so as to destroy or attempt to destroy the evidence of sex, either while in transit or m storage. O The state s tush and game chief 1 warned that "if our hunters do I not closely observe the regula-! regula-! tions as established this year, they will have every reason to expect further reductions in bag and possession limits next year" This season's dailv bag limit on male birds has been set at three with a possession limit of six. Limits on quail are 10 birds bag and 20 birds possession. "Many states have taken drastic dras-tic steps to brin" back dwindling pheasant populations", Leonard asserted. He singled out Idaho and Montana Mon-tana as typical examples in the intermountain west where ah normally wet springs the past few wars have slashed pheasant propagation to a minimum. In Idaho the season has been shortened considerably and the possession limit has been cut to an all-time low of three birds. In Montana, the season was closed clos-ed entirely after alarmed sportsmen sports-men found that pheasants had virtually disappeared from former form-er prime hunting areas. It will be impossible for us In maintain adequate pheasant the state fish and game department. depart-ment. By so doing they will be giving giv-ing invaluable aid toward a com-' com-' prehensive bird study being conducted con-ducted at the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college at Logan by the Utah Cooperative Wildlife Re-! Re-! search unit and the fish and game i department. Launched in 1!45 under direction direc-tion of Jessop B. Low, the study i is being made of the state's ' pheasant restocking iirogram with game-farm reared birds to determine just how efficient the 1 present method of restocking is i and how it may be improved. "The question has been re-; re-; peatedly brought up as to whether wheth-er released birds are too young I or too old to insure maximum survival consistent with the cost of rearing them", Low pointed out. "Another major problem is , whether they should be released I in larae or small bunches. Also it would be helpful to know in what surroundings the birds do: best. The answers to these and many other questions are being sought in this study." In general, the pattern of this year's study is the same as last I FISH AND GAME NEWS Strict Regulations Govern 1946 Elk Hunting With 1060 lucky hunters scheduled sched-uled to start the annual fall quest for Utah's biggest game the elk on Nov. 7, the Uiah fish and game department today reminded re-minded the sportsmen of proclamation procla-mation regulations which will govern the shooting. The important impor-tant points are: It will be necessary for hunters hunt-ers to check in and out of checking check-ing stations whether successful or not. Failure to do so is a violation vio-lation of the proclamation- It is unlawful to transport meat from the hunting area without it being properly tagged with the tag attached at-tached to the permit. It is mandatory that the elk permit be filled in with information infor-mation as requested and returned to the state fish and game commission com-mission not later than five days after the hunting period closes. All hunting must be done under un-der supervision of a game warden. war-den. Persons not possessing a permit per-mit are prohibited from carrying carry-ing firearms on an elk hunting area. George W. Reid, chief deputy I game warden, announced that all ; permit holders have been sent copies of the regulations. Hunters Get Request io Turn In Band Numbers Off Pheasants Pheasant hunters who knock ' down a bird this year with a band on its leg are urgently requested ! to turn the band number in tc |