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Show B6 Wednesday, August 16, 2006 Vernal Express H)te readly for piir atsjaiiinisfi Jim ds() Uintah's line may be small and young, but they are working work-ing hard and are determined, said Ute Coach Kevin Dickson, who is back as head coach after a year's absence. "I am like the general manager, man-ager, as I have turned much of the training to my assistants," Dickson said. "I will deal with all of the outside distractions." Dickson will be relying on the expertise of assistant coach Doug Harding. "He is like my field marshal," mar-shal," Dickson said. Other assistants are Scott Mansfield, offensive coordinator; coordi-nator; Allen Peacock, defensive defen-sive coordinator, Shannon Johnson, line coordinator and Ed Browning, JV and running backs. This year the quarterback position should be strong with returning Tyler Jeski. Also returning are senior running backs Jared Ruppe and Colton Hemstreet. The Ute defense will be headed up by Mike Hopla and Curtis Motoski. The Utes will have 85 players play-ers on varsity and junior varsity, var-sity, which is about 20 less than normal. The numbers are down this years because of eligibility. "One player was ineligible because he got a 68 in trigonometry," trigonom-etry," Dickson said. The Utes will have the first test of their team Friday at 7 p.m. against Juan Diego. It will be an endowment game so the admittance will be more than Region games. The cost is set by the state. "We expect Juan Diego to be big," Dickson said. "They are always big and they have a good football program." Dickson said that last week's Red and White game helped the team loosen up and work out some of the kinks in their play. "Toward the end of the game, I felt our team's confidence was building," he said. "Many positive things came out of the game." Like Uintah, Juan Diego will be relying on its junior quarterback, quar-terback, Corey Lever, who was thrown to the wolves as a sophomore soph-omore quarterback thrust into varsity action. Lever helped lead Juan Diego to a share of the region championship. r ,' I o O 9 0 mi ' 0 Coach Harding barks out orders at practice. a J II 0 J.i ft JV " It 1 Asst. Coaches Mansfield, Harding, Browning, and Johnson watch the team practice. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes waterfowl hunting season similar to last year On Friday, July 28, 2006 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services proposed liberal hunting regulations regu-lations for the upcoming 2006-2007 2006-2007 late waterfowl seasons due to improved habitat conditions condi-tions and waterfowl production produc-tion estimates. Hunting season lengths will be 60 days in both the Atlantic and Mississippi Flyways, 74 days in the Central Flyway, and 107 days in the Pacific Flyways. "Based on improved breeding breed-ing habitat conditions and an improved outlook for production produc-tion in many breeding areas, the agency adopted the 'liberal package,'" said Service Director H. Dale Hall. "Good to excellent excel-lent conditions in the northern grasslands and parklands of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and above average precipitation precipita-tion in previously dry portions of Southern Alberta will benefit many prairie-nesting species this year. The exception is in the Dakotas." When compared to last year there will be an extra hooded merganser in the daily bag limit in three eastern flyways The canvasback and pintail daily bag limit will be one for the entire season. Last year's reduction in the daily bag limit to two scaup in the Atlantic, Mississippi and Central Flyways and three in the Pacific Flyway will remain unchanged. "The scaup population has experienced a significant long-term long-term decline and this year's estimate is the lowest on record," said Hall. "The Service is proposing to continue the reduction on the daily bag limit it established in the future if the trend continues." The Service also published its proposed early season waterfowl hunting regulations in the Federal Register. Under these regulations, the special September teal season is available avail-able between September 1 and September 30. The seasons for Canada goose, youth hunting days, sea ducks, snipe, woodcock, wood-cock, rails, common moorhens and purple gallinules, sandhill cranes, band-tailed pigeons, mourning doves, white-winged and white-tipped doves and falconry fal-conry will continue with little change from last year. For the Pacific Flyway which includes; Arizon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and portions of Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Ducks: Under the proposal, states are allowed 107-day season between Sept. 23,2006, and Jan. 28, 2007. The proposed daily bag limit is seven ducks, including no more Young hunts offered for upland game than two mallard hens, two redheads, red-heads, three scaup, one pintaid and one canvasback. Geese: 107-day seasons, with outside dates between Sept. 23, 2006, and Jan. 28 would be able to be selected in Utah. Proposed basic daily bag limits are four light geese and four dark geese. Other restrictions vary by State and zone. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal Federal agency responsible for conserving, conserv-ing, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing continu-ing benefit of the American people. The Service manages the 95 million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System, which encompasses 542 national wildlife wild-life refuges, thousands of small wetlands and other special management man-agement areas. It also operates 69 national fish hatcheries, 64 fishery resources offices and 81 ecological services field stations. sta-tions. The agency enforces federal fed-eral wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, popula-tions, restores nationally significant signif-icant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitats such as wetland, and helps foreign governments with their conservation conser-vation efforts. It also oversees the Federal Aid Program, which distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in excise taxes on fishing fish-ing and hunting equipment to state and fish wildlife agencies. UHS Football 2006-2007 Schedule Date Opponent Time Aug. 18 Juan Diego home 7:00 p.m. Aug. 25 Carbon 7:00 p.m. Sept. 1 Grantsville 7:00 p.m. Sept. 8 Snow Canyon home 7:00 p.m. Sgpt.15 Union home 7:00 p.m. Sept. 22 Park City home u.. . 7:00 p.m. Sept. 29 Morgan 7:00 p.m. Oct. 6 Judge home 7:00 p.m. Oct. 19 Wasatch 7:00 p.m. UHS Girls Soccer 2006-2007 Schedule Date Opponent Time Aug. 31 Union 3:30 p.m. Sept. 5 Park City Home 3:30 p.m. Sept 7 Judge home 3:30 p.m. Sept. 12 Wasatch 3:30 p.m. Sept. 14 Morgan 3:30 p.m. Sept. 19 Union home 3:30 p.m. Sept. 21 Park City 3:30 p.m. Sept. 26 Judge 3:30 p.m. Sept. 28 Wasatch home 3:30 p.m. Oct. 3 Morgan home 3:30 p.m. Oct. 10 First Round Playoffs Oct. 14 Quarter Finals Oct. 19-21 State Tournament Hunters 15 years of age and younger can experience the trill of hunting chukkar partridge and ring-necked pheasant by signing up for special youth upland game hunts. The hunts will be held in Utah this fall. Four new chukkar hunts will be held this year, providing provid-ing youth hunters with a total of five chukkar hunts, and five pheasant hunts, to choose from. "We're holding these hunts to increase the interest young people have in upland game hunting and wildlife conservation,'' conser-vation,'' said Dean Mitchell, upland game coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources. "The hunts are a lot of fun. The kids don't have to complete with older hunters for a bird, and the young hunters who have participated in the past have really enjoyed it" Getting qualified to participate partici-pate is easy. All recent Hunter Education course graduates 15 years of age and younger have to do is complete an application applica-tion and write a one-paragraph essay on: "I want to continue the Utah upland game hunting tradition because ..." or "I would like to start my own upland game hunting tradition because Local man places in horse competition Gordon Hirschi recently competed in the Utah Charity All Breed Horse Show at the South Jordan Equestrian Center. He competed on his spotted saddle horse, and his Tennessee walking horse. He competed in several classes, bringing home a championship in SSH English Specialty and third place in SSH Western Championship. Gordon and his wife, Carol, are the owners of more than color horses. Their goal has been to breed and raise Tennessee walking : horses and spotted saddle horses. On August 23, Gordon, Carol, and their granddaughter Ashleah Murry will be traveling to Shelbyville, Tenn. to compete in the 68th Annual Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration. S girls tenoiis resumes practice The Uintah High School girls tennis team has been without a place to practice for the past two weeks. The Uintah High courts have been resurfaced and closed to play for the past two and a half weeks. They opened Tuesday. Monday and Tuesday this week, coaches JoJo Gail and Sharon Shipton accompanied 14 players to Salt Lake City for a two-day tennis camp at the Sports Mall. Team practices will resume this week. There are 27 girls on the team. Their schedule will be Judge at Uintah Aug. 31, Wasatch at Uintah Sept. 12, Uintah at Morgan, Sept 14, Uintah at Park city Sept 21 and the State Tournament at BYU will be Oct 5-7. "3 |