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Show 1980 Deer Season planned by Game Control The antelope season, for the most part, will run from Sept. 6 to Sept. 14 with 315 permits being offered to hunters. A total of 95 moose permits and 27 anterless permits. The hunt is scheduled from Nov. 1 through Nov. 16. The bighorn sheep hunt is scheduled Sept. 13 through Oct. 12 with 18 permits set to be issued. The buffalo season is slated to run Nov. 1 through Nov. 18 with 27 permits to be issued. A reduced deer season for the southern portion of the state was approved at the meeting of the Utah Board of Big Game Control held Saturday. While closing portions of three southern Utah deer units and limiting buck-only hunting to seven days in most of the southern third of the state, the board voted to allow the taking of over 15,000 antlerless deer in northern Utah during the coming fall hunt. The Board in other action set dates for the big game hunting seasons and authorized a substantial raise in the hunting permit fees. The general deer season in 1980 will run from Oct. 18 through the 28, except in 11 southern Utah units where hunting is limited to seven days. The three closed area include the Elk Ridge unit in San Juan County, a portion of the Paunsaugunt-Kaiparowits Paunsaugunt-Kaiparowits unit and the Dixie-East Pine Valley unit. Almost all units south of Beaver will be affected by the seven-day buck-only hunt. Specifically the hunts units that are being restricted in southern Utah include 50, 51B, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61B, and 61C. It was pointed out that deer herds in southern Utah have been down for several years and haven't responded to the buck-only hunting seasons as well as the northern region. The establishing of a separate hunting season for the area was a departure from the Big Game Control Boards attempts in the past to have a uniform hunting season throughout the state. The Board doubled the cost of special control permits to take a second deer from $5 to $10 and raised almost all of the big game permit tages. The cost of a special archery or muzlelader tag went from' $5 to $10. Open bull elk permits and elk archery permits were raised from $15 to $30. Restricted elk permit fee were raised from $25 to $25. The cost of an antelope tag went from $10 to $25 and the cost of a buffalo permet went from $100 to $200. An auction was also authorized for a single desert bighorn sheep permit with the tag going to the highest bidder. Money from the auction will be used to finance future desert bighorn sheep transplants. Date for the archer season were set from Aug. 16 to Sept.l and a policy was contiuned which will allow archers to take one deer during their hunt and another deer during the rifle season. Archers, however, will be ineligible to apply for any control permit and won't be allowed to hunt in the 11 southern Utah units where the . reduced season is in effect. The archery open bull elk season has been authorized to run conccurrently with the . archery deer season on units which will be hunted on the regular open bull hunts. Additional 150 permits will be selected at random from all archery open bull permits per-mits puchased prior to August 1 and validated for taking any elk of the hunter's hun-ter's choice. The muzzleloader deer season will run from Nov. 1 through Nov. 9 statewide, with the 11 southern Utah units again being closed. Muzzleloaders will be required to purchase their tags before the regular rife season starts and will not be permitted to hunt additionally ad-ditionally except in special control permit areas where they may draw out successfully. suc-cessfully. The open bull elk season will run from Oct. 1 to Oc-t.14. Oc-t.14. Some 2,000 special bull, antlerless or hunter's choice elk permits will be issued in units across the state. |