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Show PHEASANT HUNT STARTS NOV. 8 The Utah fish and game commission com-mission set the season for the sage, grouse hunt as well as the opening date for this fall's pheasant pheas-ant season during their quarterly meeting held recently. Only the opening day for the pheasant hunt was set. This was scheduled for Saturday noon, November No-vember 8. This date was set for the convenience of those who might wish to plan their time for this hunt. No season length, bag and possession limits, or other controlling factors governing the hunt will be set until further information in-formation regarding this year's pheasant crop is available. The commision set the dates for this year's sage grouse hunt for September 13-14. Four bird limit for the two day season; a total of 690 permits to be issued at $3 a permit. Hunting areas and number num-ber of permits for -each are as follows : Beaver, 25; Minersville, 25; Pan-guitch Pan-guitch Lake, 30; Bearvalley, 100; Dog Valley, 60; Grass Valley, 100; Seven Mile, 25; Vernon, 25; Diamond Dia-mond Mountain, 50; Blue Moun. tain, 50; Fremont, 50. Parker Mountain, 100; Strawberry, Straw-berry, 50. Application for permits on all units will be received by mail only in the offices of the fish and game commission, and postmarked not later than 12 midnight, mid-night, August 17, 1952. If more applications are received for any given unit, than the number of permits allotted to that unit, a public drawing will be held. Recommendations for the morning morn-ing dove season are for September 1 through 10. Bag and possession limit, 10 birds. Shooting hours, half hour before sunrise until sunset. sun-set. Counties to be opened for dove hunting: Beaver, Emery, Iron, Grand, Juab, Millard, San Juan, Tooele, Sanpete, Uintah, Utah, Washington, Wayne and part of Duchesne and Salt Lake. The September 1 opening date for the dove hunt was the earliest date allowable by the U. S. fish and wildlife service, who control the hunting of the migratory dove. |