| Show What's Doing in inTHE inTHE inTHE in- in THE GREAT OUTDOORS By By Stan Taggart t To the doten half doen of ot you ou who tailed failed to get pet your our deer during the regular hunt Despair Ix not for thorp there Is III still time There are three large arras areas In the southern and eastern portions of the stale elate where a second deer may be betaken betaken taken on your regular r license Hunting on some units will be allowed right on Into the month of December The State Fish FItt Game Commission Com Com- mission million after alter careful deer count counts and actual seasonal measurements of browse brown plants planta has hai concluded that many units have have problem deer too deer too many I Ifor for existing range Help the game manager managers by I your deer where hunting li Is needed I IA A few Morgan 1 folks have hunted hunted hunt hunt- ed deer der near nar Kamas this week weM I The Kamas area will be open Saturdays Saturdays Sat Hat and Sundays for three more weeks eks I I Approximately waterfowl j 1 hunters swarmed over Utah's su su- perlor p marshlands for the opening October 13 and season pre-season shooting shootIng shoot shoot- Ing took place on every last pud pud- dle Dy By 8 II am a.m. all birds were airborne airborne airborne air air- borne and climbing fast Game violators seemed to be the rule rather than the exception What type of birds should hould the expect to bag Records complied at Utah's Utah public public pub pub- lic ho shooting areas area Indicate that on the average one out of every five ducks shot will be a pintail one out of five a winged Green-winged Teal one out of six a Mallard and one out of six Ix a The other fourth of ot the average duck bag will be composed of Baldpate Gadwall Redhead Canvasback Canvasback Can- Can Cinnamon Teal Ruddy Duck Lesser Bufflehead Greater Ring- Ring neck Duck winged White Scoter and winged Blue Teal Great Basin Canada Geese produced produced produced pro pro- primarily In the Great Basin Dasin Das Bas in Area compose the bulk of geese bagged in Utah Occasional Snow Geese lesser Canada Geese and Geese are als also taken by local No Brant pass through our state Speaking of geese what did you think of ot the flock that paid a visit to our valley last lest week Hear tell toilsome some local feller nailed one of em l 1 Long shot too tool I Pheasant and quail season of ot course opens tomorrow In case youre you're interested the ring-necked ring pheasant is Utah's most popular upland game bird In 1965 1955 hunters killed of ot them More successful were the 1964 hunters of them bagging of these birds Although there Is I. no Immediate Immedi Immedi- ate threat of extinction the annual annual annual an an- nual Increase of license sales salea contracted with the gradual reduction reduction re reo of pheasant habitat will surely result In smaller mallel and smaller bird harvests as clim ration atlon progresses Tho The first pheasants were released released released re re- leased In Utah In 1898 by M. M II H Walker Only about three per cent Cen t of Utah's land area Is la of suitable climate and topographical type for supporting pheasants Actually there are fourteen upland upland upland up up- land game birds In our state Besides De- De sides the mentioned above Ring lUng necked Pheasant we have Mourning Mourn Mourn- ing leg Dove Sage Grouse Gambel Quail C California Quail Hungarian Partridge Partridge Blue mue Grouse Ruffed Huffed Grouse S a Sage a age g e Grouse Grous Columbian almost almost al al- most most noat extinct tailed Band Pigeon Merriam Turkey and the Exotic game birds red legged partridge and black partridge |
