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Show 0k hunting dates set by officials Elk hunting in Utah for 1968 looks somewhat different from the lineup of past years as the board of big game control included in-cluded three more areas in the open bull hunting category and set most hunt openings one week later. Hunters who are eligible for elk permits this year will have an opportunity to purchase a bull permit and hunt on the Cache, Ogden River, Uinta Mountain (including the Bear River-Hole in the Rock Unit), Manti or the Nebo units. Hunting dates will be October Oc-tober 5-11 on the Cache, Ogden Og-den River and Nebo units, and October 5-15 on the Uintah Mountain and Manti units. For the other elk units the board authorized 105 either sex elk permits and 295 bull permits. per-mits. These restricted permits will be on the following units, Brown's Park, LaSal Mountains, Moun-tains, Heaston, Salt Lake, Mt. Dutton, and Fish Lake. All elk hunts will open October Oc-tober 5 except for the Heaston and Fish Lake units which will be November 16 through 24. Open bull elk permits will be sold from August 5 through August 13 and applications for the restricted unit permits will be accepted between August 15 and August 23 on the special spec-ial elk application form. Full details on elk hunts for 19fiS are now available. |