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Show Game Commission Sets Plans for Mourning Dove Hunt Director J. Perry Egan an-nounces an-nounces that at a recent meeting meet-ing of the Fish and Game Commission Com-mission the proposal of Harold S. Crane, supervisor of Game Management, was accepted to hold a mourning dove hunt this year. Mr. Crane announces that, after af-ter canvassing the Wildlife Federations Fed-erations and wardens over the state, his department feels that a limited hunt can be held this season. He says that the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the controlling body concerning this hunt as the mourning dove i; a migratory bird. This service has been asked to set aside the mourning dove season in Utah for Sept. 1 to 9, inclusive, with a 10-bird limit. The counties proposed to be opened for the shooting of mourning doves during this season sea-son will be Tooele, Juab, Millard, Mil-lard, Beaver, Iron, Washington, Uintah and San Juan. These counues are cnosen Decause oi the bird populations there, as well as for their easily determined deter-mined geographical lines. The hunt this year is a limited hunt Further surveys, and results of this hunt, will determine the extent to which the mourning dove will be hunted in this state in the future. |