OCR Text |
Show First Reports Show Game Harvest Drop Salt Lake City-Preliminary reports on the 1971 Utah big game hunts were released recently re-cently by the Division of Wildlife Wild-life Resources. The early reports showed approximately 89,000 deer were taken in Utah on regular licenses li-censes last year compared to over 98,000 in 1970. Regular licenses hunter success was near 47 in 1971 and 55 the year before. Bad weather stalled stal-led the 1971 Utah deer hunt the second day of the season. Elk harvest figures show 1,756 animals were taken by over 9,000 hunters last season. Nearly 17 success went to open bull permit holders and 39 to the restricted area hunters who drew for their either sex elk permit. Moose huntinglooked reasonably reason-ably good last year. Of the 65 moose tags issued, 32 were used. Buffalo hunters removed ten animals from rangelands last year. Fifteen permits were authorized by the Board of Big Game control. Antelope permits numbered 230 in Utah last season, which is a record number for the 26-year 26-year old hunt. Hunters took 179 pronghorn in 1971. Most sheep hunters were outsmarted out-smarted by the bighorns last year when nine of the ten permit per-mit holders flunked the course. The tenth hunter took an animal younger than the seven year minimum age, which was classed clas-sed as an illegal kill. Aerial surveys by biologists prove the sheep are still around, but are now more wary of man than in 1967 when the Utah sheep hunts started. |