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Show Board sets regulations Upland game seasons to begin Sept. Duchesne and Uintah counties will continue to be closed to chukar hunting, after several thousand young chukars were introduced into those areas last year. The chukar bag and possession limits are five and 10 respectively statewide. Hungarian partridge populations have been up in Box Elder County, where 90 percent of the harvest occurs, says Roberson. However, winter losses have reduced the population somewhat. The Hungarian partridge season will be Sept. 18 through Nov. 30 or January 31, depending on the county. The bag and possession limits are five and 10 respectively. respec-tively. Roberson expects pheasant hunter success to remain high in 1982. Although the northern part of the state did experience ex-perience some pheasant losses during the severe winter, production has been good the last several years. In Box Elder, Cache, Davis and Weber counties, an extended pheasant season, Nov. 6-19, 6-19, will be in effect. In Duchesne and Uintah counties, the pheasant season is November 6-21. A month-long season from Nov. 6 through Dec. 5 will be in effect on all state and federal land in Carbon, Duchesne, Emery, Grand, Juab, San Juan, Tooele and Uintah counties. The statewide bag and possession limits are two and four cocks respectively. respec-tively. An extended quail season, Nov. 6-21, will be in effect in Duchesne and Uintah counties. Morgan and Summit counties are closed to quail hunting . In all areas of the state, except Washington County, the bag and possession limits are five and ten respectively. In Washington County, where the quail season is Nov. 6 through Dec. 31, the bag limit is eight , and the possession limit is sixteen. The cottontail rabbit and snowshoe hare seasons are Sept. 18 through January 31. Roberson says the cyclical rabbit populatioin has bottomed out and is now increasing. Daily cottontail limits are five or ten depending on the county. The daily snowshoe limit is five statewide. A two-day bag limit is allowed in possession. Wild turkeys of either sex may be hunted from Sept. 18 to 30 in Iron , Kane and Washington counties and Garfield counties west of Highway U.S. 84. A $3 turkey permit is required. CEDAR CITY Most upland game seasons will begin Sept. 18, according to regulations set by the Wildlife Board on June 23. The general pheasant and quail seasons will be Nov. 6-14, with extensions in some counties. The sage grouse season is Sept. 18-24. The daily bag limit varies from one to three, depending on the county. Several new areas will be closed to sage grouse hunting due to declines in populations. These are Tooele, Millard and San Juan counties and that portion of Duchesne County south of Highway U.S. 40. Blue and ruffed grouse may be hunted Sept. 18 through Nov. 30 in all areas of the state. Bag and possession limits are for four and eight respectively. Jay Roberson, upland game supervisor for the Division of Wildlife Resources of the Utah Department of Natural Resources and Energy, said the populations of forest grouse have been down recently. However, populations of these species tend to be cyclical, and he expects an upswing soon. For the first time an open season has been approved for white-tailed ptarmigan, an introduced grouse species in Utah found above the 11,000--foot level in the Uintas. Seventy-nine ptarmigan from Colorado were first introduced into Painter Basin near King's Peak in 1976. The season is set for Sept. 11 through Oct. 13, with a daily bag limit of four and possession limit of eight. The chukar partridge season is Sept. 18 through Jan. 31, except in some counties, where the season ends Nov. 30. Juab County south of the Old Pony Express Road to Calleo and east of Callao-Grandy road will be closed to chukar hunting in 1982 due to a chukar transplant program in that area. Also closed will be Salt Lake and Utah counties east of Interstate Highway High-way 15. Daggett, |