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Show FISH AND GAME HIGHLIGHTS A tour and inspection of fish and game projects, with a short business busi-ness meeting at Fish Lake, will make up the regular oummer quarterly quar-terly session of Utah's five man fish and game commission. Meeting agenda calls for the com missioneri to gather at Fairview July 12, with a tour of the Manti Mountain area scheduled during this first day. The comm issioners will travel on to Fish Lake, where a business meeting will be conducted the morning mor-ning of July I 3. Afternoon of this second day calls for inspection of facilities in the Sevier County section. As usual, the business meeting at Fish Lake is open to the public. The I960 seasons for deer, elk, antelope, moose and buffalo hunting hunt-ing have been set by the Utah Board of Big Game Control. A statewide general deer season will begin October 22, with an 11-day 11-day or longer hunt scheduled for taking animals of either sex. The Board also set several special spec-ial hunts to channel hunting pressure pres-sure into many of the state's 62-deer 62-deer herd units where field information infor-mation showed a more equitable harvest was needed to balance herds with available forage. A statewide archery deer season was et for Sept. 3 through Sept. 18th. A -total of. 2,375 elk permits were authorized for 14 hunting units. Antelope hunts were set to allow 160 buck only permits over seven hunt'ng areas. Twenty permits were authorized for hunting bull moose on the north east slopes of the Uinta mountains. The board also authorized 1 0 permits for hunting mature buffalo bulls from the only state-owned herd which ranges in the Hanksville -Henry Mt. area of southeastern Utah. |