| Show i te a f l ZE f tf je ir i W w k a r w n w I e ruc n n TW iy JM r w n w n tl r THE BASEMENT FOR THE NEW Deseret Federal Savings and ond Loan Association building on the corner of First North and Vernal Avenue was dug this week The new structure is being built on the site by Remco Construction Company of Salt Lake City and should be finished sometime next spring The temporary Deseret Federal office alike has been moved out to the sidewalk to tomake tomake to tomake make room for the construction work day IS-day t pheasant hunt opens Set Sat morning By J err Grandison Wildlife Resources Conservation Officer The last of Utah's major hunting seasons for 1974 begins Saturday with the opening of the pheasant hunt This years year's season will be slightly curtailed compared to the last few years lasting only 15 days on private lands instead of the previous 30 day season However state and federal lands will remain open to hunting until December 1 Starting time of shooting Saturday morning is 8 am a.m. Thereafter it is daylight hours which are defined as one-half one hour before sunrise and one- one half hour after sunset In all cases the bag limit is two roosters per day with a possession limit of four after the first day LOCAL officers are predicting a success a little higher than last year Pheasants seem to have made a small comeback ome ck a after r dropping to a low after the severe winter of 1972 Numbers seem to be up after an excellent nesting year this summer However again this year there will be less pheasant habitat for the birds because of increasing residential and commercial development in the basin This means that every year we have less and less area that will carry birds over the winter into the next breeding season IDEAL NESTING years will thus produce occasionally higher populations but the overall populations will most surely decline because of loss of habitat This year as in every year problems are expected because of trespass violations Because the pheasant is a bird of agricultural areas he is necessarily a resident of private property for the most part Utah hunters accustomed to free access on Forest Service and lands often run into trouble when pursuing phea pheasants pheasant ts s on private land IT SHOULD be emphasized that while the birds definitely belong to the state of Utah and the sportsmen private land and access to it do not The rights of the landowner must be respected and failure to do so will result in a citation The minimum penalty for a trespass violation is 50 and suspension of hunting privileges for a minimum of one year Other violations that are common during the pheasant hunt are shooting at signs shooting from onto or across a road and carrying loaded firearms in or on a motor vehicle All of these are serious and potentially dangerous infractions infractions infractions in in- fractions and citations will be issued in every case where they are observed It is important that all hunters acquire a current proclamation and make themselves aware of these and the other regulations pertinent to the pheasant hunt and follow them to the letter Only then can we have the clean enjoyably hunt th that t all of us should be striving for |
