Show SPORTSMEN ASKED TO SEND IN RECOMMENDATIONS Salt Lake March 25 The Utah Fish and Game department today asked sportsmen throughout the state to make recommendations on fishing and hunting seasons for the coming and bag In a memorandum on seasons and bag limits sent all wildlife Mark department asked sportsmen to submit comment on a series of questions vital to establishing the will not be Anderson state and federal proclamations on fishing and hunting seasons and bag limits for 1942 will be taking In order that we might have the benefit of your recommendations will you submit your comment on the following Among the questions listed were Opening dates and length of opinion on whether sportsmen favor one opening date for all fishing waters in the and if what what hours of shooting and bag limits are preferable for bag limits and season on upland preference on a longer or shorter hunting season for preference on whether the deer bag limit should be increased or kept the same as in the Still another question asked if the sportsmen were satisfied with the usual early November elk hunt or if they would prefer a different Anderson explained that the questionnaire was sent the federations following inquiries by various In answering one such the director usual against an earlier season are that more meat spoils on an average with earlier that nearly all cattle and sheep are off the higher ranges and leaves are usually off trees and brush by late The most logical argument against a longer season is that more than 90 per cent of the deer are taken in the first two days of the present 11 day Longer hunts would also cost the department more than the shorter are also many good points in favor of an earlier Better better more recreation and less hardships are among There are two good why the pheasant hunt is usually held early in to avoid as much as possible overlapping and conflict with other and the farmers have practically all of their crops out of the Irrigation is also at a minimum during that |