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Show California Nimrods Flocking In For Deer Hunt Warm Weather May Force Hunters To Higher Altitudes To Find Deer With deer hunters arriving from California and local hunters getting get-ting ready to "hit for the hills", the main topic of conversation among the male population of this section is deer hunting. The hunting hunt-ing season officially opens Saturday Sat-urday morning, but many hunters are already leaving for their camps preparatory to the hunt. This year hunters are being given the opportunity of getting both a buck and a doe. To date the full quota of 2500 hornless deer permits have not been sold, but every indication points to the fact that the full allotment will "be sold before the season ends. These doe deer are being removed re-moved in the interest of keeping up grazing conditions and tlieir removal was given an official okeh by all interested organizations organiza-tions in this section. For years California hunters have gone home with practically every hunter checking out with his deer. Also local hunters have taken a high percentage so that the hunting on the Dixie National Forest has earned a reputation that has been carried far and wide. Men who study the range report re-port that the warm weather may be a factor in the hunt since the deer sometimes stay on the higher high-er ranges while warm temperatures tempera-tures prevail in the lower altitudes. alti-tudes. This makes it harder to find the deer and may keep the "take" down. With the larger number of doe Continued on page eight) Deer Hunting (Continued from first page) permits being issued, everything points to the largest number of deer being taken off the range since a deer hunt has been permitted. per-mitted. While many hunters opposed op-posed the doe hunt at first, most have become satisfied that the doe need to be removed for the good of the range and the ultimate ulti-mate good of the deer themselves. ' m |