Show FISH and GAME illiah fuh fish and game coi co commission I slon with the 1944 duck hunt opening just three weeks distant namely saturday october 14 director ross leonard of the utah state fish and game commission has issued some helpful and possibly little known reminder about regulations governing the 80 day waterfowl season season because the season Is 10 days longer this year the closing date Is january 1 I 1946 1945 southern utah hunters get a break tor for ahe first time in several years heretofore the closing date generally rolled around before the freeze over in the northern part of the state had forced the main light flight south in other words such popular leccas as cie clear r lake and bicknell becknell bottoms are going to be better than ever because the will be fair game clear through christmas christina holidays I 1 did you know you may legally bag 15 rather than just 10 ducks j dally daily and have a possible 30 in possession this season you may provided at least five ive in the dally bag or 10 in fit the possession limit are widgeons pint pintails alls or mallards obviously there has been a big increase in these three spec specie tep the goose hunter gets d a break in the now new regulations too ile he is permitted to bring home six geese as a days limit although only two may be canadian Can adlan honkers as in the past title this was made possible by reopening the continued on lat ait page page k i 1 I FISH and GAME continued from page one season on snow or blue ble geese geesa with a dally daily bag of tour four remember no hunting until utitia a halt half hour before sunrise nor after sundown director ross rosa leonard ot of the utah fish and game commission credits sportsmen of southern utah with initiating the movement which resulted in the extended 1944 waterfowl season lor for states in the same zone as utah petitions from tho the sevier county and panguitch Pan gultch wildlife federations were relayed to the conference of western fish and oame game commissioners in phoenix last april resulting in the adoption of a resolution to the U S fish fasl and wildlife service the result 10 more dayson days of hunting on the tall end ot of the season when lt it really counts in southern utah heres a man bites d do g story from the utah fish and game commission i pheasants jn some instances may be a scourge scourge to newly plant ed farm crops lut but apparently they more than atone for this as pest ix tars that at least Is why the commission has approved a petition requesting re establishment ot of the pheasant sanctuary sanc uary situated situate ct between crichfield field and glenwood glen wood you see the farmers of sevar devler county helped initiate the petition three three deer and one bull elk were werd part of the toll taken by the recent brush tire fire that swept hundreds of acres of the heaston game preserve north of bin bang 9 jiam ham in the oquirrh mountains according lo 10 to boorts reports reaching D dl rector ross leonard of the utah fish and game commission muto mute evidence that the effects ol of a carelessly tossed butt or failure to completely extinguish a camp tire fire can ie be tragic as well as costly the tour four carcasses were found at the base of a 76 toot foot eliff in barneys barneis Bar canpon n scorched patches of hair indicated that the brush tire fire which had eaten to the edge edga of the precipice had forced the animals over |