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Show Upland Game Hunts Set In Utah Beginning Sept. 20 Utah scattergunners will go after most upland game bird species September 20 under regulations set by the Wildlife Board last week. The eiccp-tions eiccp-tions to the September 20 opener are quail and pheasant seasons w hich begin November Novem-ber 1. Specifically, sage grouse season this year will be September 20 through 26 in all but four conties of the state. Wasatch County will have a two-day season this year, September 20 and 21, while Salt Laie, Washington, Utah and Juab counties will be closed. Bag and possession limits for sage grouse will differ in various areas this year. Carbon, Car-bon, Daggett, Duchesne, Emery, Em-ery, Grand, San Juan and Uintah counties and those portions of Utah and Wasatch counties included in the Price River-White River drainage w-ill have bag and possession limits of two or four. Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Kane, MUIard, Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties will have bag and possission limits of three and six. Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Morgan, Rich, Summit, Tooele and Weber counties and the Sheeprock Mountains in Juab County will have bag possession possess-ion limits of one and two. Forest grouse season is set for September 20 through November 30 statewide with bag and possession limits of four and eight. Sharp-tailed grouse season this year will be September 20 through 26 in Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Morgan, Rich, Summit and Weber counties with bag and possission limits of one and two. The Board set September 20 through January 15 as this year's chukar and Hungarian partridge seasons in all areas of the state except Uintah County where the season will be closed. Bag and possession limits for chukar partridge in Carbon, Car-bon, Emery, Grand, Uintah and San Juan counties will be eight and 16 and will be five and ten statewide. A September 20 through October 15 turkey hunt was set. Open counties include Beaver, Garfield, Kane, Iron, Piute, Sevier, Wayne, Washington, Wash-ington, Grand and San Juan. The season limit will be one turkey of either sex. Special turkey hunting permits will be sold from September 10 through the season at all Division offices. Cost is $3. The cottontail rabbit season will be September 20 through January 31 statewide. Bag and possission limits in Tooele, Salt Lake, Wasatch, Utah, Juab, Sanpete, Carbon, Emery, Em-ery, Grand, San Juan, Millard, Sevier, Beaver, Piute. Wayne, Iron, Garfield and Kane will be ten and 20. Limits in Box Elder, Cache, Rich, Weber, Davis, Morgan, Summit, Daggett, Duchesne and Uintah counties is five and ten. The limit in Washington County is 15 and 30. |