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Show j lilewi 1foteS .... Permanent opening dates for upland game bird seasons were established by the Utah Fish and Game Commission at their recent meeting in Salt Lake City. , The mourning dove season wiU open on September 1, unless this date falls on a Sunday, Sun-day, in which case the season wiU open September 2. Opening dates on chukar, Hungarian partridge, forest grouse and sage grouse will be the fourth Saturday in September. Turkey Tur-key season will commence on the first Saturday in October followed by the pheasant and quail seasons opening on the first Saturday in November. These opening dates were established es-tablished by the Commission to allow Utah sportsmen to schedule sched-ule their vacations early and to make their plans early for these hunts. Season length, bag limits and other regulations will v,o established by the Commission later after collection of biological bio-logical data has been completed complet-ed by Department field personnel. per-sonnel. Louis Dees of Buckeye, Arizona, Ari-zona, killed a very big desert bighorn ram during the special spec-ial permit season on the Bureau Bur-eau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife's Kofa Game Range in western Arizona last Nov. 27. It is now official; the te'n-year te'n-year old ram from the Kofa carried the biggest head ever taken in the United States! After the official waiting period, which allows for any possible shrinkage, the huge trophy scored 187 points, highest high-est ever recorded in the United States and seventh in the all-time all-time world records for the desert bighorn. Measurements were certified by Bob Householder, House-holder, official representative of the Boone and Crockett Club which keeps the big game records. The big sheep weighed in at 160 pounds field dressed, and his headgear certainly matched his body. The evenly matched horns measured 40 inches in length and 15 inches in circumference. cir-cumference. Usually considered to be North America's most desirable trophy, the desert bighorn occupies oc-cupies hot, arid stretches of the southwestern mountains. Although their numbers are low, it is possible to allow the sportsman the thrill of harvesting harves-ting old rams, without hurting the reproductive potential of this fine game animal. The desert bighorn population on the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife's Kofa Game Range is estimated at 280 animals, an-imals, about the same as it was in December 1964. In keeping with the practices of wise management of our resources, it has been possible to take 12 trophy rams from Kofa Game |