Hunters Await Antelope Season
Match 6th, 1942
The first opening years was awaited eagerly by local sportsmen.
Only formal approval of the season by the state fish and game commission in Sacramento is needed to make the measure effective. Members of the board, meeting here several weeks ago with the Lassen sportsmen, gave tentative approval to the season, so it is generally expected that the commission itself will allow legal shooting of the pronghorn.
A ten-day season, to run from June 5 through June 14 is planned with five hundred hunters to be issued licenses. Well over that number have already made applications for the licenses at the commission’s headquarters in Sacramento.
The lucky hunters allowed to purchase the licenses at five dollars each will be determined by lot.
Two counties, Lassen and Modoc will allow shooting of the animals. An aerial survey made recently indicated that well over five thousand of the animals are ranging in the two counties.
Stockmen have during the past several years complained that the pronghorns were becoming so numerous as to seriously damage crops and pasture land.
