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Show Peg Tlms-Thursda- y. January 21, 1 982 Its cold but WomtoD Utah Wildlife Resources biolgists braved frigid temperatures and blowing and drifting snow to transplant 21 bighorn sheep and over 100 antelope into several important areas of Utah once inhabited by these species. Big game must be transplanted when conditions are right. In suran winter, animals are concentrated in larger numbers and are more willing to come into areas baited with food. years of careful antelope in Utah have resulted in transplants Thirty-fou- r productive antelope populations in many areas of the state and the ability to tran- - splant Utah antelope from existing herds to parts of the state where no populations exist. The most recent antelope reintroduction is on Pilot Mountain in western Box Elder County, where 86 antelope were transplanted. Thirty one of these antelope were transplanted from the Snowville area in December. Another 55 were transplanted from Parker Mountain north of Loa in January. In the same transplant operation on Parker Mountain, 40 antelope were released in Clarks Valley southeast of Price, where a small herd is established. Grant Jense, big game coordinator for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources of the Department of Natural Resources and Energy, is hopeful that transplants within the state may also be in the future of the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep program. While antelope were being trapped on Wildlife other Mountain, Resources biologists were cooperating with Wyoming Game and Fish biologists near Dubois, Wyoming, in trapping 21 bighorn sheep to infuse with Utahs small population on Mt. Nebo in Juab County. Parker seven bighorn sheep were transplanted from the same area in Wyoming to Mt. Nebo last January to help establish a viable population of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in Utah. Few mountain sheep have inhabited Utah since the early 1900s. Our goal is to reestablish sheep in Utah. When sufficient numbers are established, mature rams may be hunted. says Jense. He emphasizes the if and when when discussing the goals of hunting mountian sheep and transplanting the animals into other historiacal range in Utah. Presently, the Rocky Mountain sheep are thriving well in their new environment. Recently, 23 sheep from the, 1981 , transplant, including four lambs bom on Mt. Nebo, were spotted near the paddock where they were kept for the first several, months after the transplant. Last year, 10 Twenty Central Regional Game Manager Jordan Pederson red mountain sheep leases ewe into paddock on Mt. Nebo. of 27 transplanted sheep were mature ewes. In 1982, fourteen mature ewes, three ewe yearlings, three ewe lambs and one ram lamb were transplanted to Mt. Nebo. Jordan Pederson, Wildlife Resources Central Regional game manager is hopeful that most of the mature ewes will lamb in the spring. A donation from - the Wildlife Federation Springville-Mapletohelped finance the 1982 transplant. Unlike antelope, which are high strung and usually must be driven into portable netted corrals with the aid of a helicopter, the mountain sheep were trapped easily and quickly under a drop net. Apple mash as bait did the trick. Mountain sheep get hooked on apple mash, says Jense. W e had about 60 sheep watching us bait the trap and we were hardly able to get our trucks out of the way before the sheep started moving in. Mountain sheep were accustomed to yearly trapping operations in the Whiskey Mountain Bighorn Winter Range on the east slope of the Wind River Mountains, where the Wyoming Game and Fish is required to limit the number of mountain sheep to keep the range in gOQd condition. Mountain sheep are susceptible to disease if they become concentrated in too great number. n Two veterinarians were on hand at the trapping site, where blood samples were taken and penicillin shots administered. The 21 sheep were trapped one morning, transported to Utah in two horse trailers and released the next morning in the paddock on Mt. Nebo. All of the sheep received red ear tags. Ear tags are white on the sheep transplanted in 1981 . Three of the sheep have been radio collared so their movements may be followed. The sheep were also treated against lungworm and will be treated again in 60 days prior to their release from the paddock after becoming accustomed to their new home. WlldliU Resources radio-collare- (Continued from page 1 ) and elections. An election committee would be required to file with the state at specified intervals and five days before election, verified financial statements, which shall be open to public inspection and copying, and include : The total aggregate amount of contributions received during the reporting period, if over $1000. The name and address of each person contributing $200 or more, together with the amount of such contribution. Total aggregate expenditures, and an itemization of each expenditure over $1000. The balance of cash on hand at the end of the reporting period, and the total aggregate amount of unpaid debts. Expenditures made and contributions received during prior reporting periods in the calendar year. In a camjpaign termination report, the name and address of any person who Though soybeans were being cultivated in China before 3500 B.C., they were virtually unknown in Europe and America until 1900. receives surplus funds from the campaign, going to be back in several years asking or reimbursement. them for donations again. All were asking All campaign advertising must contain a is he make those records available to the disclosure of the registered committee public through the press before an election, for its publication. A comnot after. responsible mittee member or candidate convicted of If this were a general session, says willful violation of these guidelines would Rep. Selleneit, Id give H.B. 52 an exbe guilty of a class A misdemeanor and cellent chance of passage. Obviously there would be some animosity, some resentsubject to impeachment. We have been trying to get such a bill ment, a feeling perhaps that its reacthrough for the' last five years, says tionary, a spinoff of some of the things that Patricia Brim, president of Utah Common happened this summer, or maybe of the Cause. There is a great deal of opposition Nixon era, going bade that far. still, and its very vocal here among the It is partisanship on both sides that is behind some of the opposition, says legislators not to have to disclose their finances. They say it will discourage Patricia Brim. The bills are being treated a little bit like political footballs. If the prospective candidates from running for ' office if they ahve to keep records. people want to know how the political races of their representatives are being funded, Everybody has to keep records, she added. Any business or household has to if they would like to know who is lobbying in order to pay its taxes and meet its bills. and spending great amounts of money up We are quite sure that no candidate who here at the capitol on their legislators, they runs for public office ever loses trade of the should make that known to their Senator and Representative. people who give him money because hes According to Representative Selleneit, A telephone call to their Representative and their Senator encouraging openness in government would be helpful. Other Sunshine Bills being examined by this legislature indude HER H.B. 9, Public Body Exdusion, and HER H.B. 18, Public Meetings Act Amendments (both to open to the public legislative party caucuses and rules and sifting committees HER H.B. 40, Lobbyists Control (to require lobbyists to register with the state and report expenditures); H.J.R. 19, Ethics and Organization Rules Revision (to establish in state government a bipartisan ethics committee with enforcement powers); and HER H.B. 91, Campaign Disdosure Amendments, which is similar to H.B. 52. If these bills come out G.e., receive senate and house enabling resolutions), sayd Representative Selleneit, legislators will probably take the one that has the less stringent penalties. |