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Show DATES SET FOR BIG GAME HUNTS The 1962 big game seasons . have now been set by the Utah Board of Big Game Control. Con-trol. Except on four herd unit areas, a general statewide 11-day 11-day deer season was scheduled for Oct. 20-30. On the; Heas-ton, Heas-ton, Vernon, Stansbury and Tintic units, the hunt will be for six days, Oct. 20-25. The archery season is scheduled for Sept. 1-1S. Only earlier rifle hunts for deer this fall will begin Oct. 13 on the Henry Mountain, Muddy and Paunsaugant units. Longer seasons, ' extended week ends and special permits were set for several of the state's 62 deer herd units where the board found a greater harvest was needed. Some 2420 elk permits were authorized. General elk season sea-son will 'be Sept. 22-30, though longer and later seasons were set for some herd units. Buck hunting only for 125 antelope on five units was set for a season of Aug. 18-19-20 and Aug. 25-26-27. Permits for taking 20 mature ma-ture buffalo were authorized for a season of Sept. 8-16. Fifteen Fif-teen permits for hunting bull moose were scheduled for a Sept. 22-30 season. The board decreed that both red and yellow colored hunting hunt-ing clothing would continue to be legal for the big game hunts. Rifle and archery tackle requirements remain the same as for the past several years. Deer hunters were again limited lim-ited to the purchase of two special permits, either multiple mul-tiple unit, antlerless, or two-deer, two-deer, but only one may be purchased pur-chased for any one deer herd unit. All rules and regulations covering the big game hunts will soon be published in proclamation proc-lamation form and reprints will be available to the public about mid-July. |
