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Show Wildlife board sets upland game seasons The general season for all upland game (except mourning dove and band-tailed pigeon) will open September Sep-tember 20, as set by the Wildlife Board at a recent meeting in Price. The seasons, regulations and bag limits are similar to the 1979 season (please refer to proclamation available July 13.) Sharp-tailed grouse hunting will be closed in Utah during 1980, due to low populations of grouse. Tooele County, which has been closed to sage grouse hunting, will now have one portion near Vernon open to a weekday only sage grouse hunt from September 22-26. This year, Morgan and Summit counties will be included in the several counties closed to quail hunting. Carbon, San Juan, Emery and Grand counties have been added to the list of counties limiting cottontail hunters to a bag limit of 5 instead of 10. The upland game proclamation will be published July 13, to provide complete com-plete details about the upland game seasons. It should be noted that final mourning dove and band-tailed pigeon regulations will be set on July 22. The proclamation will be published July 27. Dwight Bunnell, Division upland game supervisor, notes that populations of upland game have generally been very good the last several years. |