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Show I Big Game Board i support 'Buck Only' hunts allow 100 antlerless permits in the Fishlake unit (14). It also adopted a proposal to issue 50 bull elk permits on the Book Cliffs unit (21). The Board approved a motion to issue 100 nonresident open bull elk permits to holders of nonresident big game licenses. It also approved conditional elk and deer hunts to be authorized on open bull elk units and any deer units where deemed necessary by the Division of Wildlife Resources. Some Fee Changes The Board raised the fee of the 5 bighorn sheep, 10 buffalo and 25 moose permit? to $100. Those three game ecies may be hunted only once in a lifetime in Utah. The bighorn sheep hunt will be Sept. 20 to Sept. 28 on the San Juan unit, while the buffalo hunt will be Nov. 8 to Nov. 17 on the Henry Mountains. The moose hunt will be Sept. 6 to Sept. 20 with 20 permits on the Uinta North Slopes (unit 1) and five permits on the Ogden River-Lost Creek-Cache unit. Antelope hunters will find regulations much the same in the past during the Sept. 6 to Sept. 14 season. One new unit has been added, the Icelander Wash area, where 10 permits will be allotted for the first time. Altogether, some 245 antelope permits will be issued. All hunters will be required to wear hunter orange during the general big game hunting seasons this year, except muz-zleloaders muz-zleloaders and archers during their special seasons. Utah doer hunters will find mostly buck only regulations again this year under rules set by the Board of Big Game Control. The Board adopted buck only hunts on all but 17 units for the Oct. 18 through Oct. 28 season. Those 17 units will feature hunter's choice permits, which allow hunters to choose between taking a buck or a doe. The 6,000 hunter's choice permit holders, ranging from 200 to 850 on the various units, will be determined by a drawing. In all but two cases, tne tsoaru agreed with recommendations made by the State Interagency Committee and aired at public meetings across the state. In the San Juan Blue Mountain unit (31A), the Board changed the proposal from 1,000 hunter's choice permits during the regular season to 500 during the regular season and 500 on a five-, five-, day notice hunt later in the season. The Board said no to a proposal for 250 hunter's choice permits in the Joe's Valley unit (35). A proposal for 300 hunter's choice permits on the LaSal-Dolores LaSal-Dolores unit (30B) in a special Nov. 15 to Nov. 30 hunt was approved. ap-proved. Archers will be hunting for bucks only this year. However, archers who take a deer during the Aug. 16 through Labor Day season may also hunt during the rifle season with their regular tag; thus, they may take two deer. The archery deer season was set for the next five years. Muzzleloaders will have a new deer season and new hunting grounds this year. The hunt will run Oct. 1 through 13. The Wellsville (4), Monroe Mountain (48) and South Boulder (51B) units will have buck only hunting. hun-ting. The North Boulder (51 A) unit was authorized as a muz-zleloader muz-zleloader hunter's choice area with 250 permits. Muzzleloaders must take their deer with the regular season tag. The decision was heavily supported by muzzleloaders and archers, who have hunted together in the past. Elk Hunt Rules A special archery open bull elk season was authorized to run concurrently with the archery deer season on the rifle open bull units. The Board, however, denied a request by archers who wanted to apply for special elk permits for use during the archery season, as applications could not be processed in time. The special permit drawing is set for Aug. 25, while the archery hunt begins Aug. 16. A midweek elk opener was unanimously approved by the Board, which set the opener on the Wednesday nearest Oct. 1 for the next five years. This year's hunt will be from Oct 1 through 13. The Board made changes in four elk hunt unit recommendations. recom-mendations. The 50 antlerless permits were divided with 15 on the north of the highway in the Ogden River unit (3) and 35 on the south side for a special Nov. 15 to Nov. 30 hunt. In the Ashley-Vernal unit (8), the 1 125 hunter's choice permits were changed to 100 antlerless permits to be issued during the regular season. On the Manti unit (12), 300 hunter's choice permits will be issued in the area between the Orangeville-Ephriam road and Spanish Fork Canyon and on the eatern slopes. Two hundred permits had been recommended in a smaller area bounded on the north by Eccles Canyon. The Board unanimously voted to |