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Show Friday, March 8, 1985 Yemfll httt 7 'Earl and Myron' At Si - , - f ( ) Y i ".I . -V b i HANDS FLY through the air during shot blocking attempts dur-; ing a pick up game at Uintah High School in the small gym- Big game should be limited to existing winter range feed By Hartt Wixom, Vernal Express Outdoors Writer With March here, just how well has (is) our big game wildlife wintering? Recent film footage on television shows elk and deer in the foothills across Utah, and into haystacks, suburbs, and in some cases, deep trouble. trou-ble. Not like last year, mind you, but enough conflict with man to be concerned. con-cerned. Nor need we feed them in wholesale measure everywhere as was done last year. But one game biologist recently indicated in-dicated this is the third rough winter in a row for our big game. When are we going to have one of those normal November-to-April periods, like the old days? Blizzards of '89? Don't tell us about it. Things are much rougher now for man or beast. Having been recently contracted to write a book titled Elk and Elk Hunting, Hun-ting, I've also been taking a closer look at some of the problems the animal has getting through a winter. And when wapiti have problems, Homo Sa-pien Sa-pien does also. We never will have the conflicts they do in Jackson Hole where 40,000 elk stormed the valley at one time, and half of them died in a few rough winters. The solution was two fold: more hunting (the entire area had been a game preserve at one time, like Yellowstone National Park), and the artificial feeding which led to establishment of the National Elk ficfuge. What has that got to do with L'tah? Just that on a smaller scale, wo have some of those problems in Utah. In Morgan and Summit Counties there's talk of getting another elk feeding ground, like the other one In the state al Hardware Ranch. You have to wonder if part of the trouble there is that the (old) tcseret Livestock Ranch allows limited big game hun into Sprina coming March 20 in the v r -i'TA -V; ting.. .then the surplus game raids lowland agriculture off the DL Ranch. Today's big game management can't be provincial. Alter all, deer and elk recognize no boundaries. The same thing can potentially occur oc-cur (and in some areas already has) with the elk and deer entrusted to the Ute Indian Tribe in the Uintah Basin. Quality hunting is an understandable goal of the Utes and judging from the hunting I've enjoyed there when non-Indians non-Indians were invited to fee-hunt the reservation it did indeed begin to dwindle after a time. The idea seemed seem-ed to be that tribal members would have better hunting with others locked lock-ed out. But managers must always be watchful wat-chful that their game populations do not exceed the feed-carrying capacity capaci-ty of the winter range. When that happens, often through reduction in hunting pressure, you have big trouble on the horizon. The Utes have some of this world's best elk (and deer) country, most of it on upper up-per Hill Creek over the Mormon Ridge, but some also on south slope of the Uinta Mountains. How they manage it will affect not only non-Indian non-Indian hunting, but non-Indian crops and haystacks. Winter did not mean such dramatic conflict in the past for man and wildlife. But when man took away the foothills with "summer" cabins, asphalt, and in some cases entire housing hous-ing divisions, not to mention new roads and induslialization in the form of more logging, mining, recre alion etc. then It became man's responsibility to replace some of it, or face the consequences. As far as wildlife to concerned, there aren't many "mild" winters anymore, even if nature lavished man with one occasionally. True, there arc oiher parts of the Mate harder hit, such as the entire Wasatch Front. Wiih the winter ranr they have rrjJacrd there, big game herds will have to 1 con- i - 4 V- nasium, which is located across weight room. tinually trimmed by hunting to curtail conflict with people. One of the benefits of living in say, northern and eastern Utah, is that you can have your wildlife (cake) and eat it too. The range can still support historic (almost) numbers of elk and deer with wise management in key "hot spot" areas keeping range feed equal to range wildlife. But to do that we've got to manage for winter Survival. You can't ever say it's done. Like brushing your teeth, it is seldom a matter you can label "closed" forever. Boat registration date extended Due to problems with the printing of boat assessment notices, mailing of boat registration renewal packets have been delayed. Because of the delay, the Board of State Parks and Recreation has authorized an extension, for this year only, of the boat registration registra-tion expiration date to April 30, 1985. Boat owners whould receive registration renewal packets by mid-April. mid-April. Boat owners may register their boats sooner by appearing in person at their county Division of Motor Vehicles office. Inquiries regarding boat registration registra-tion should be directed to the Division of Motor Vehicles. SOIL fiROSlON The force of wind and water are not the only causes of soil erosion, lays National Wildlife magaiine. For Instance, In-stance, off road Vehicles, like the "dune tHig'," have scoured more soil off parts of California than nature will rrplace in I.ooo years. from the racquetball courts and New Late Show Telephone Communications 26l-914 Burns & McDonnell 26-10 Kens Sporting Goods 21-15 High Game Karla Randies 225 Kathleen Burrows 209 Shealiah Spain 203 High Series Kathleen Burrows 544 Shealiah Spain 210 Sue Holmes 509 Bowlers garner leads in meet Lory Cook of Vernal is the leader in the singles handicap after the first weekend of the 4Gth annual Women's State Bowling Tournament at Rainbow Rain-bow Lanes in Ogden and Karyl Lanes In Brigham City. Cook had a 805 tally. The singles scratch leader is Ann Lund of Salt Lake City at $48. The leaders in the scratch doubles are Debbie Bertoch and Vivian Larcade of Salt Lake City at 1053, Linda Hansen and Darcy Garcia are the doubles handicapped leaders at 1354. Team scratch leaders are Hendricks Hen-dricks Trucking of Salt Lake City at 2619, Eagle Company of Salt Lake City Ci-ty leads team handicap at 3W13. Judd's Answering Service of Vernal is in second place learn handicap at 3061. Grace White of Spanish Fork had the high game at By Frank Hanchett Express Outdoors Writer Several years ago two old codgers in their early eighties embarked upon their annual deer hunt. They were brothers, and had spent their lives together hunting, riding the range with livestock and raising their families. Their sons were unable to go hunting with them that year, so the pair went off on their own. What the sons enjoyed most when their fathers and other uncles got together were the arguments over the mundane, politics or religion; and on occasions who was right in a water-rights shoot-out that had occurred oc-curred some 30 years before between some neighbors. A deer hunt with the nephews and uncles was something to behold. A stranger to the scene would think a fight was going to break out any minute with all the bickering. But the stranger did not know that in the history of 16 brothers and sisters no one had ever raised their hand against the other. The nephews seldom argued, rather they enjoyed getting things warmed up. Family reunions where the sisters were involved were hilarious. Everyone was talking and waving their hands and not hearing a word the other was saying. While driving to a mountain place for an outdoor reunion, it was a common sight to see a caravan of seven or eight cars.;.all the windows had an arm sticking out pointing at something usually where so and so shot a deer, how big it was, when it was shot and what with always started an argument. The women had to do the driving because the men always used their hands and arms to do the talking. When their hands were pocketed, they were strangely more quiet. One uncle always enjoyed "rassles" and was constantly organizing his nephews into grappling grappl-ing tn lawns, in weeds, or in the cow corral. All in all, there was never a family which showed more love and devo tion to each than this one. Only Earl and Myron remain of the brothers, and they still hunt, argue and fish. As the story started out, the two brothers were somewhere in the mountain where they had gotten stuck in their two-wheel drive. The truck was sliding closer Into the barrow bar-row pit w hen Earl decided to get out of the truck, and push it away from the pit as Myron would back it out. Well, Earl slipped and fell under the wheels which ran up his leg leaving the prints from the studs In his leg for some months afterward. Earl's leg provided the needed traction for Myron to back on out and onto the road. Earl rolled out of the way to avoid having his head hit by the front tire. Myron saw Earl laying in the snow bank of the barrow pit. "What are ya doin Earl?" "Well damnit, I slipped, and you ran over my laig!" "Well are you going to lay there all day yelltn end scarin th' deer or are yagotng U hunt?" "1 think ya broke my laig when ya ran over it!" "Well, yore too old ta be pushin on the truck, we should have brought chains " SAVE -05100 OH simply the best sale on simply the best woodstovc nvick Pi'uni I'M NOW S660 NOW Th6 Stc; hpm4 t - t- i w r 1 1 ip vi UNIQUE CREATIONS KENT "Hand me my gun so I can lean on it...andIain'told!" Myron fetched Earl his rifle, and Earl hobbed over to the truck and got back into the passenger's side. Earl proceeded to tell Myron that if he had been driving they would not have gotten got-ten stuck, but Myron insisted he knew the truck better since after all it was his. Myron, also insisted he would not have been so foolish to have let a truck run over him and break his leg. (Seems as though the leg was indeed broken in two places above the ankle. No mention of going to town and see a doctor hunting and arguing were more important.) "Hey, look up there," Myron said. "There's a two-point with them does." "That's a spike!" "That's a two-point... your eyes are old!" "I'm a year younger than you, an that's a spike!" "Well, I'm going ta shoot it either way!" "Well you suit yourself damnit, but I cannot help ya dra 'im in with a broke laig, and you'll haves a heart attack doin it by yourself and then I'll have to haul the deer, and you back ta the truck and drive ta town by myself." The nephews have heard this story several times now and we still wonder, Did Myron shoot the deer? Was it a spike or a two-point? Maybe next deer season they will stop arguing argu-ing long enough to tell us. Utah rodeo star pockets lead Utah cowboy Lewis Feild of Elk Ridge is the all-around leader in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys -Association standings as of March 5, 1985 with $26,920. Mike Beers of Rufus, Oregon, is in second place at $15,732 and Dee Pickett, Caldwell, Idaho, is in third place at $14,892. Cody Lambert, El Paso, Texas, is number four at $13,503 and fifth place is owned by Lyle Sankey, Branson, Missouri, at $13,322. Feild, Beers, Pickett and Sankey are former Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo cowboys. The top saddle bronc rider is Brad Gjermundson of Marshall, North Dakota at $18,650. Dave Appleton of Arlington, Texas is in second place at $16,000 and Duane Daines is in third place. Bob W. Brown is in fourth place and Kent Cooper, Declo, Idaho, is at number five. Cooper is a former Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo cowboy. Feild is in third place in bareback bronc riding at $14,358. The leader is Steve Dunham of Turner Valley, Alta., Canada, at $15,862. Wayne Herman of Dickinson, North Dakota, is in third place at $14,358. Tuff Hedeman of El Paso leads bull riding at $19,378 and Ted Nuce is in second place at $17,759. Bobby Del Vecchio is in third place. Cliff Williamson of Madden, Alberta, Alber-ta, Canada, is in first place in calf roping at $21,818. Larry Robinson, a former Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo cowboy, is in second place at $20,181. Rod Lyman of Great Falls, Montana, leads the steer wrestling at $22,453 and Gary Green Is In second place at $15,814. Two Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo cowboy stars of the past. Jake Barnes, Bloomfield, New Mexico and Clay O'Brien Cooper, Gi!tert, Arizona, are In first place In team roping at $9,607. Beers and Pickett are tied for third place at $7.8J Leo Camarillo, another Dinosaur Roundup Roun-dup Rodeo performer, is in fifih place at$7,3f4. Charmayne James, who competed In last year's Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo In Vernal, leads the barrel racing at I19.7M. Brrnda Tyler is In Second place at $13,724, ANY KENT WOQDSTOVE in1 I t,- r- $560 NOW S660 THE STOVE! hhp-. s t-j w rrm 158 |