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Show create potential hazards to range and agricultural areas. The Board gave the Division of Wildlife The litah Board of Big Basrpuces authority to Game Control has call emergency hunts as established the needed. regulations and season Field investigations dates for the 1977 big revealed that Utah's deer Hunt schedule animal game hunts following a week of public are populations well to buck responding hearings throughout the only hunting and that the State. Four of the five 1976 fawn crops are better board members are than average in much of serving their first term the State, due largely to but worked long hours to mild winter conditions become familiar with and favorable weather wildlife conditions and the fawning establish equitable, during season. The Northern, biologically sound Northeastern and Central decisions. Those regions have shown the decisions follow. Muzzleloader Deer Season Muzzleloading en- thusiasts will have their own deer hunting season this year from October 1 through October 11 in the following Wellsville Stansbury units: (unit (unit 4), 12) , Minnie Maud (unit 27A) and Monroe Mountain (unit 48). Additional will regulations require that a muzzleloader must shoot a projectile of .40 caliber or greater, use black only and be with iron sights. equipped powder ELK most pronounced deer The 1977 open bull elk population increases with season will be Deer September herds in the Southern and 28 One buck deer per October 16. through Southeastern regions Open bull elk hunter, regardless of the albeit may be purchasedpermits method of hunting, will be improving, at any the statewide rule for somewhat dower. Utah Division of Wildlife Archery deer hunting during the Resources office, either Deer8eason 1977 deer season. The in person or by mail July The 1977 archery deer 25 general rifle deer season season will be through August 12. open from will begin at dawn on Application forms are August 20 through Sep- also available October and 22, from Saturday, tember 5. The hint will be license will last agents. through November season. 1 an 11-da- y The only exceptions to the buck only rule will be the special regulation requiring that a deer have four points or better to be harvested in the Henry Mountain unit (deer herd unit 52) and the special permit hunts established by the Board. Deer herd units three, six, seven, eight and nine (northern Utah) have a total of 1,000 hunters choice permits designated for the regular season to control deer populations in those areas. Units two, five, six and eight have tentative schedules for 450 permits on five day notice hunts that may be called if large numbers of deer migrate into the units and buck only statewide except in herd unit 52, where the four points or better requirement, as in the general deer season, will be in effect. One deer per hunter will apply. The Board made use of the cocking device known as Sure-Sh- illegal ot during the bow hunt and also established the archery season dates for 1978 to be August 19 through September 4. The bow and arrow is a legal weapon for hunting all big game animals in Utah. Special permit elk hunts, as in previous years, will vary by unit as to the type of hunt and number of permits issued. Hunters will need to examine the new proclamations carefully. Authorized were 1,305 hunter's choice permits, along with 535 anterless and 130 special bull only permits. Procedures for making application on the special elk permits was changed this year. Anyone wan ting to hunt elk this season will first have to purchase an open bull elk permit ($15). Open bull elk permittees will then be eligible to make application for special elk permits which will be selected by a drawing. Successful applicants will have to pay an additional $10 for the special permit. The Board also elected to allow party applications for elk hunting wits inhere open bull hunting is not authorized. Applications will be limited to two individual permit holders names July 8, 1977 Page Three 17 through October 16 hunt. Twenty permits will be good on the portion of Utah the south-centrbighorn hwting wit that lies north of highway The remaining five permits will be valid for hwting south of the same highway. Only legal rams, those of seven and one-hal- f years of age or Eureka Reporter to archery elk hwting. . Antelope September 3 through 11 will be legal hunting dates for the 1977 antelope season. Two hundred and fifty permits have been established. The Cedar City and Hatch Point wits will have not permits issued this season. Buffalo al U-9- 5. and There will be ten older having hunters choice buffalo minimum 144 modified permits issued again this Boone and Crockett year for the Henry points, may be taken. Mountains buffalo herd. The Board also lifted The hunt will be the hunter orange 5 November 20. clothing requirement for through per application. These Moose bighorn hwters. permits will be available Two of Utah's three on the Book Cliffs, The survey project Avintaquin-Whit- e River, moose herd wits will team is working 26 Goslin-Thre- e Corners, have permits available planning units of the BLM Heaston and Indian for hwting this fall. Herd and Forest Service in the Peaks elk units. On all wit 1, the Uinta North two coal regions, wits inhere open bull Slope, will have 20 bull collecting specimens and hunting is authorized, permits, with hunting determining which plants September 10 thrive in each unit. These only single applications from will be accepted. through 25 on the entire include southern coal One hunched twenty-fiv- e wit. A portion of wit 1 area, the Henry Mountain nonresident open bull will be open to hunting for sector, the Wasatch elk were those who draw out on the Plateau sector, and the permits authorized by the Board. 20 anterlerless permits. San Rafael Swell sector That is 25 more than last The antlerless hunt will and regions eastward. be November 12 through season. We are looking for the December 11. locality of proposed enArchery Elk Moose herd unit 2, dangered and threatened The archery elk season freek-CachRiver-Loplant species so that we for 1977 will run con- Ogden will be separated can determine the steps currently with the ar- into two subunits for the to avoid these chery deer season, 1977 hunt. Each unit will necessarywith narrowly plants August 20 through Sep- have five bull as the permits restricted ranges tember 5. There will be an available. are lands coal wlimited nujber of arMoose herd unit 3, developed, Welsh Dr. chery open bull elk Daggett, will be closed to said. He noted that there permits sold. A special hwting in 1977. are about 60 endangered drawing will select 100 of plant species in Utah. these permits to be Bighorn Sheep A toted of 25 bighorn validated for hunters The Bible is a window in choice harvest. All open sheep permits will be this prison-worlthrough bull elk units will be open issued for the September which we may look st e, d, - Subordinated Notes First Security Bank is offering $23,000,000 in Subordinated Notes. imoitti ifgniitfwto MEL DUKE mrniirv WE SPECIALIZE IN REMOUNTING PRECIOUS STONES IN NEW RINGS! If you have a dia- mond, ruby or any precious stone, and are looking for a new setting, let us help . . . It might cost less than you think. Shop Our Many Pine Gift Suggestions Available in a minimum of $500 and increments of $100. 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