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Show ) NEWS, Brigham City, Utah Sunday, September 1, 1974 BOX ELDER Shorter pheasant season Upland hunts, limits set by wildlife board GOAL Its no secret to hunters and farmers alike that pheasant numbers are steadily declining. Farmers see it as they tend their fields daily and sportsmen are most aware of it in fewer birds taken and shortened bag and season limits. The Division of Wildlife Resources has proposed a set aside program that would pay farmers for leaving small areas of fields unharvested to provide feed and cover for pheasants. The program piloted in Weber county this year and the division has plans to include the entire o of rising state, but has run into that costs and static income, according to Jack Rensel, Northern Regional supervisor. bug-a-bo- Not only must the division sell the farmer on the program, it must sell the legislature and the sportsman that more revenues must be found to pay for play, finance such a program that will help keep populations at least stable. The Utah Division of Wildlife has Resources announced season lengths and bag limits for several upland species following the meeting of the Utah Wildlife Board in Salt Lake City Wednesday. The pheasant season has been chopped in half due to poor populations again this year according to Jack Rensel, DWR Northern Regional supervisor. The season will open Nov. 2 and run 16 days with a limit. The season the past several years has been 30 days limit. overall with a three-birThe board also reduced the bag limit by one bird last year. Renzel said declining numbers due to a rapidly dwindling habitat is the main reason for a cutback in season length. He Uvo-bir- d d said populations are down throughout Northern Utah and no change in the pattern is in sight. Open Sept. 28 season for Hungarian partridge, chukars, forest and The Rensel says costs to the division for its fish sage grouse and cottontail rabbits opens Sept. 28. Populations overall are up in Northern Utah for these species, according to Rensel. Bag limit on blue and ruffed grouse is four birds daily. Limit on sage grouse is one bird daily. Bag limit on chukars and Hungarians has raised from five to eight, said Rensel. The grouse season runs through Nov. 30, with chukars legal to Jan. 15, sage grouse, just seven days and rabbits, Jan. 31. Blue grouse numbers appear to have hit a peak year, said Renzel. Sage grouse numbers are about average and chukar and Hungarians are above past years populations over Northern Utah. Of course, said Rensel, the dove season opens Monday and runs through September. The duck season opens Oct. 5 at noon and the goose hunt a week later. Possession limit is five on ducks with a bonus for seven a day. Geese two-pinta- il have a two bird limit. Hunters may also have one canvasback and two redheads in the overall bag this year, he notes. Shorter for Rabbits Rensel said the cottontail season was shortened from March 31 to Jan. 31 to coincide with hunting license expiration date and because a study shows rabbits begin having litters early in March. Hopefully this will leave a few more breeding-ag- e animals for next season. Bag limit for rabbits is again 10. painted a brighter for deer hunters in Northern Utah this year. It looks considerably better than last year. The dry weather may affect distribution during October, but the overall outlook is pretty fair, he said. The season runs Oct. 19 to 29 in most cases and is pretty much bucks only in this end of the state. Rensel said 200 permits have been available for the Weber county area to allow a hunter to shoot either buck or doe on his regular license. Permits Left Thirty to 40 of these permits remain and cost $5 each. They may be picked up at the Northern Regional office. Rensel said permits do not allow an extra deer, but increase a hunters chances by allowing him to shoot either a buck or doe. The wildlife board decided and fewer deer numbers made it unnecessary to give hunters two il that enough population deer in most BOX instances, ACTION SPORTS Campgrounds to stop services after Labor day Jensen bags four point in bow hunt shows off beauty that he bagged with a 50 yard shot. He can boast of bow hunting this year just out of Richfield. ELDER therefore the board did away with extra permits this year, he said. Deer could be in lower elevations than past years, since range rides indicate extreme dry conditions in those elevations, he pointed out. Wayne A. Jensen, Brigham City, is sportsman and supporter of the local Archery club, and to prove his point he bagged a four point buck with a compound bow. Jensen is the past President of the Utah State Archery Assoc, and downed the beauty with a 50 yard shot through the heart, near Richfield. Jensen has made other strikes with his bow taking such captures as deer, swan, antelope and two javelina. Rensel argues, and persuasively so, that a hunting and fishing license, say at even double the $10 combination fee now, provides a sportsman with 365 days a year of recreation of one type or other if he so desires. Thats pretty cheap These measures are being A number of National Forest campgrounds are to be closed taken in order to make the most following the Labor Day efficient use of available funds Efforts are being but still provide recreation weekend. made to scatter the closures in opportunities for the public. such a manner as not to close entire areas. The Forest Service asks that Information as to the nearest visitors carry out their own will be posted garbage as well as five items of open campground at each closed area. In addition, trash left by others less cona number of services, such as siderate than themselves. trash pickup and drinking water will be curtailed. For information concerning The fee system will not apply where full services are not specific campgrounds, contact the local Ranger District office. provided. SHIRT LAUNDRY .ONE DAY SERVICE The only Laundry in Brigham City TAILORING, ALTERATIONS AND REPAIR CLEANERS AND SHIRT LAUNDRY 36 North Main Sanitone 723-377- 6 Sportsmen clubs, such as the Box Elder Federation, need to lead the way in educating the public to the problems that lie ahead for the sportsman and the public in general if funds are not found for such programs as they set aside for pheasants and purchase of winter range for deer. Wildlife recreation. And recreation it is, says Rensel. Gone are the days when we could harvest the surplus of the land because we needed it, at no cost. Too many people and too much ground have been interred under asphalt and subdivisions to produce the quantities of game that once abounded. Utahns need to face the facts. Its a pay and play ball game now. They cant have abundant game without paying the price, be it higher license fees, more taxes or just outright golfers think nothing of spending five bucks a round to golf a fine course, twice a week all summer, yet a deer hunter, just as dedicated and just as avid in his sport, would raise a bloody blue smoke if someone suggested his fee raise from $5 to $10 a year. Boil it down and weve really got two choices. We can cough up more for the privilege of hunting and fishing or we can hunt and fish our game to such low levels that memories will be all thats left in 10 years. Which way do you want it? Avid donations. 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Many people are caught completely off guard. To insure the comfort of gas heat from the first chilly morning, call your licensed heating contractor, furnace dealer or plumber today and have him: Inspect flues Clean or replace filters Oil motor and check blower belt Turn your pilot on (if you turned it off for the summer) Adjust and place in operating condition the pilot, burners, thermostats and other LAW ENFORCEMENT A 1 Application for whistling swan permits will be accepted at the Northern Regional office of the Division of Wildlife Resources through Sept. 11. Applicants may pick up application cards at the regional office at 166 East 4600 South, Washington Terrace. There is no charge. DWR officials say 2,500 permits for the big bird will again be distributed to hunters. Drawing for the permits will be Sept. 16 and notification will be by mail soon after. Swan hunters will find legal game at the same opening and hunting hours as for the duck season. The permits are good in the Ogden River drainage area in Weber county. Hunters must use their regular tag in tagging bagged animals. the family food bill, and while personal incomes have at least risen slowly in some cases, DWR funds have remained about the same the past five or six years since the last raise in license fees. Those fees, along with fines collected for game violations, are about the whole income for the division, he says. Projected income and expenditures for next fiscal year, says the officer, leave the state $1.1 million short. Its got to cutback somewhere, and obviously a program barely underway will be axed quicker than one long standing. Rensel sees a hike in license fees as the only immediate solution and that a healthy to the DWR in the black. doubling get to raise fees are reluctant noticeably Legislators for fear of losing votes and sportsmen hate to pay more for what they may feel isnt adequate now. WAYNE JENSEN 1 Rensel outlook hatchery program has skyrocketed about like The legislature also hesitates to budget general fund monies to the department without attaching a handful of strings. A regulatory agency such as DWR cant be tied down in management of fish and game by laymen whose ideas may be 180 degrees away from sound management practices though appearing to be right on. Swan applications accepted to Sept. When your gas furnace is in top working condition, it uses natural gas more efficiently. By keeping it well maintained you not only help conserve energy, but youll save money on your heating bills as well. SEPT. 10 nnnitllny g you with buluntl has hteryy Is tw gjutseniny II Is 'tttryluHly business. MOUNTAIN FUEL |