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Show Record Antelopes Wyoming Is planning a record antelope season for next September Septem-ber and October. The largest number of pronghorn permits ever authorized by the Wyoming game and fish commis-lion commis-lion 45,800 has been set up for 18 hunting areas. For the northeastern northeast-ern area alone, 30,000 permits will be on sale to resident and non-resident sportsmen alike and will be issued as requests are received, without reservation. Season for the northeast area will be from September Septem-ber 2 through October 14. Regulations for 1951 provide that anyone entitled to receive a resident 3r non-resident antelope permit may buy a permit and make his kill in the area specified by his permit and may also buy a second permit for the northeast are to bag an idditional animal. Hunters may, of course, buy two permits for the Northeast Area and take their two antelope there. This northeast area is more than 13,000 square miles in extent. Including In-cluding all of Campbell county and parts of Johnson, Natrona, Converse, Con-verse, Weston, and Crook counties. It is easily reached by car, train, or plane, and visitors will find good accommodations in nearby communities. commu-nities. Wyoming game laws do not require that non-resident antelope hunters be accompanied by a licensed li-censed guide. The coming season will find more pronghorn hunters in the field than ever before in Wyoming's history. Their targets will be the survivors of the millions of antelope that lived on the plains of Kansas, Colorado, Colo-rado, Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas during the lata 19th century. cen-tury. These herds have made a great comeback in Wyoming truly the "home of the pronghorn." AAA |