Show Deer Management Rift I Sets Off Ute Ue Tribe Fuse FuseI I t tI- tI I r K y rr t E E I I. I r r i s n W g 4 1 t tl of r 1 LOSING TEAM PUSHES the winning team down Vernal's Main Street to inan an time old car was the penalty for losers in the Vernal Area Chamber of Commerce membership drive contest The membership team who collected the most money during the drive rode in the car and also were treated to the Tuesday luncheon by the losers who ho had the push the car and only got beans for their lunch Highlights of the controversy between the area sportsmen the State Division of Wildlife Resources and the Ute Indian Indian Indian In In- dian Tribe over hunting hutting niana management ement was discussed by Clair Huff Vernal district district dis dis- manager of Wildlife Resources atthe atthe at atthe the Vernal Area Chamber of Commerce directors meeting held Tuesday y at the I Westons Weston's Lamplighter Inn THE HUNTING problem has existed for many years and has has' been worked out fairly well until it surfaced a month ago when area sportsmen complained about the Ute Tribes Tribe's planned post deer hunts explained Mr Huff I The deer spend about five to six months months mon mono on the Indian lands and in the summer summer sum sum- mer months move onto Forest or state lards By law the deer belong 1 to the state and the Division of life Resources has been set up to manage manage man man- age the herds to the best use of the state ON THE other hand the Indian people feel they own the lands the deer spend half the year on on and can manage their I areas areal the way they want calling in federal agencies to help them if sary Adding to this the lack of communications com corn between the two agencies the pressure has built up until it burst into the open by the recent letters to newspapers and reports given on radio I and television explained Mr Huff As a result the Ute Tribe has withdrawn withdrawn with with- drawn all deer and pheasant hunting on their lands to non-Indian non people for the year and even issued instructions to boycott communities for criticizing their I deer management plans stated Mr Huff 1 IN OTHER business discussed at the Tuesday Chamber meeting Secretary Secretary- I Manager Dwight read figures figures fig fig- ures from a population survey update of Uintah and Duchesne counties made by the Uintah Basin Association of Gov Gov- The study indicated the population population population pop pop- growth during the last two years of oil industry influx was estimated at 1952 persons for Du Duchesne county and 1552 for according to j electric power and other s information information in in- formation available indicating the number Dumber number num num- J ber of new peo people le moving into the counties j Added to the 1970 federal census figures fig fig- r ures urns the Duchesne County as of July first this year is estimated at and Uintah County at according to the new census update determination I A REPORT on the current chamber membership drive by Rob Robert rt Olsen indicated indicated in in- that to date had been collected in dues Kenneth Aycock reported reported re reo re- re ported that over 36 30 new members had joined the Chamber in the drive to get new businesses A report of a recent Area Business Community Association meeting held Tuesday of last week was given by LaMar LaMar La La- Mar Hawkins In this meeting the future i plans of a new promotional program to i I Support your local comm community was presented MR HAWKINS asked for approval of the Chamber Board of Directors to start soliciting funds to raise the goal of the ABC group needed as an annual prom promotional fund from the local businesses After a discussion the directors directors tors present voted to approve the col collection collection lection of dues for the promotional pro gram |