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Show NOTES FROM THE FiSH and GAME DEPARTMENT TURKEYS WILL BE TARGETS FOR NIMRODS Tom Turkey will be the target tar-get of hunters this spring as the Board of Fish and Game took action to declare male turkeys legal game during an April 27 thru May 13 season in seven Southern Utah counties. coun-ties. This spring hunt for the wary gobblers will have a two bird bag limit and will allow shotguns, centerfire rifles or bow and arrows as legal weapons weap-ons during the daylight hunting hunt-ing hours. Shotguns will be limited to No. 6 to BB shot sizes. The Board set a $3 special permit fee for wild turkey and set the open season for all of Grand, San Juan, Kane, Wayne: Washington, Iron and Garfield counties. BLACK DUCK TAGGED One of the few recorded occurrences oc-currences of a black duck in Utah was reported by Dallas Taylor, superintendent of the Fish nad Game's Public Shooting Shoot-ing Grounds Waterfowl Management Man-agement Area. The bird was taken in a bait trap during post-season banding operations near the public shooting grounds 14 miles west of Corinne in Box Elder County. Black ducks are closely re lated to the mallard and are found primarily in the northeastern north-eastern part of the United States. They are not often observed west of the Mississippi Missis-sippi Flyway. |