Show game department asks for recommendations the utah fish and game department today asked sportsmen thru out the state to make recommendations on fishing and hunting seasons for the coming year and bag admits mits in a memorandum on seasons anu ana I 1 1 IA A AA A ur i 1 ti r aci iari nent director asked sportsmen to submit sunn lit comment commentz com menti on a serje series ot 01 questions vital to establishing the season it will not be long anderson said before state and federal proclamations on fishing and hunting seasons and bag limits for 1942 will be taking shape in order that we might have the benefit of your recommendations will you submit your comment on the following questions among the questions listed were these opening dates and length of seasons opinion on whether sportsmen favor one opening date for all fish ign waters in the state and if so what date dale what dates hours of shooting and bag limits are preferable for waterfowl bag limits and seasons on upland birds preference on a longer adlonger or shorter hunting season for deer preference on whether the deer bag limit should be increase ed cd or kept the same as in the past still another question asked if the sportsmen were satisfied with the usual early november elk hunt or 01 if they would prefer a different time anderson explained that the ques tio was sent the federations following inquiries by various sportsmen in answering one such query the director said the usual arguments against an earlier season are that more meat spoils on an average with earlier seasor seasons that nearly all cattle and sheep are off the higher ranges and that leaves are usually off trees and brush by late october the most logical argument against a longer season is that more than 90 per cent of the deer are taken in tile the first two days of the present ele ven day season longer hunts would also cost the department more than the shorter season there are also many good points in favor or an earlier season better weather better roads more recreation and less hardship are among them there are two good reasons why the pheasant hunt is usually held early in november to avoid as much as possible overlapping and conflict with other hunts and 2nd and the farmers have practically all of their crops out of the fields irrigation is also at a minimum during that time |