Show REDUCTION IN BAG LIMIT FOR DUCKS AND GEESE reduced bag limits and improved concentration grounds will eventually mean much better hunting tor for the sports sportsmen nen of utah J T arthur machain Me chain state fish and game commiss commissioner lonc r declared c recently mr air recently announced announce da a reduction lon in the bag limits from 25 to 15 and the limit of geese from 8 to 4 the new regulations permit the hunter to have in his powes possession sion at ono one time 30 ducks and 8 geese but these must represent tw two 0 days limit the season will vill be from october I 1 to december 31 11 with of the following cotin counties tte 3 washington kane grand emery uintah san juanf guari iron iran deaver beaver summit in it morgan wasatch rich luch sevier and millard which will bo be open until january 16 the the reduction in bag limit was made to have the utah law conform with recent federal migratory wild fowl legislation for many bearg tho the gwine conservationists and sportsmen have bave been bean learning that tho the future of 0 wild fowl shooting depends upon tho the strictest kind of 0 cooperation of 0 tho the I 1 people ot of the entire continent from the nesting grounds on the north to the southern limits ot the light flight the various game birds are harassed har aasel asseg by natural enemies and men with repeating shotguns conservation in america would lie be esless it the nesting grounds ground a in canada were depleted of eggs by predatory birds aad and boasts beasts mr mecham sat sal conversely the canadians would gain nothing it athey they protected t the lie young birds only t to 0 see them fly s southward in the tall fall and perish lit itt the hands of game hogs or in poison adeas in the states the federal migratory act was passed some time ago and has been amended from time to time each amendment being considered an improvement pro utah is in line with this to give the reduced bag limit a chance to operate it will help but the reduced bag limit alone will not solve the problem dut but the people of two nations are awakening to the value of protecting the migratory birds and the solution of 0 the problem is much nearer now that so large a body ot of people are sympathetic to protection ct c wild life mr air mecham reports that there was very versa little sickness in the duck grounds in utah duijn during thomast tho past summer ile ho anticipates a good hunting season lie ile declares that the hunting on all opening day depends a great deal upon the weather and the position of the lights flights it has happened that birds would feel eel the urge to move just before opening day adly and several days would elapse before another flight would come into the shooting areas that Is ie 0 7 matter which mother nature rules in her own way george Mush back the now new superintendent in ot of the bear river luver water fowl refuge said recently that he did not believe the biological survey would regulate the refuge this year but would wait until next year the federal refuge Is about half complete and will be furnished by tho the middle of next summer |