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Show C2 Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Vernal Squirt Hockey split games with Vernal Express Craig Squirt The Vernal Squirts hosted the Craig Colorado Squirts and split two games on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2007 at Western Park, losing the first 0-5 and a winning win-ning the second 4-3. The Vernal Squirts, girls and boys ages 9-10, 9-10, skated with 20 players in the first game and 16 players in the second. The Vernal Squirts are coached by Kyler Bowden, Dave Birch, and Zan Bowden who said it was great playing play-ing the Craig squad, coached by Chris Riley. The Vernal coaches agreed that both teams match up well, which makes for fun and competitive play. Bowden added that they really appreciate Craig traveling to Vernal and enjoy playing them any time. The first game progressed with only 2 goals by Craig until the very end when Vernal'' defense broke down and allowed 3 goals in quick tucces-sion tucces-sion at the end of the game. . : In the second game, Wil Woodward started at goalie and did a "great job" in the words of Coach Bowden. Vernal had 19 shots on goal and . Craig had 9. Vernal's first goal was made on a breakaway by Colby Birch. The second was made by Corbin Reynolds with an assist from Ben Kitzmiller. The third was made by Colby Birch on an assist by Jared Holmes, and the last on another breakaway by Birch, who is having a fantastic fantas-tic year. ':' 1 : '' ; ' Kyler Bowden, who runs the offense, was proud of all three lines and mentioned -the impressive play by Colby Birch,! Corbin Reynolds, and Casey McClellan (on the same line). Also mentioned for their excellent excel-lent play were centers Dylan Weldon and Jared Holmes. r Leading the way for the defense were Ben Kitzmiller, . Andres Bowden, Braden Samuels, and . Tyler Seiffert. Coach Bowden said he was proud of strides made by these players and that the defense made a big difference in the ygame.'. ; . Coach Birch said it was a fun day and "...it's great to have so many players skating with confidence and getting more experience." He also mentioned men-tioned some newer players that are contributing and progressing progress-ing quickly, such as Camren Priebe, Conner McKeachnie, ' Jake Slaugh, and Jackson Bennion to name a few. Jill A cottontail tries to warm himself in the sun. Rabbit cycle is at its high point According to Ron Stewart, conservation outreach manager man-ager for the Division of Wildlife Resources in Vernal, rabbits cycle in population every 7-10 yearsi He adds that the drought probably caused the population hike to be pushed a little far-ther far-ther Jjack. The population will remain, "up for a year or two," explained Stewart. His conservation conser-vation officers have reported seeing rabbits everywhere they have gone. ' '..- So what does this mean?. It is time to dust off that .22. The bag limit on cottontails, is ten with a possession limit, oL20, , Stewart explained that a pos-'-; session limit includes if Jiome freezer Meaning one cannot -hunt after he or she has col-lected col-lected two bag limits, until they ' have eaten a few. Yet, this large bag limit hardly makes a dent in the population for an animal ani-mal that has 24 litters per year, each litter having the potential of eight offspring. . Cottontail season runs from Sept' 16 to. Feb. 28, giving the animal plenty of time to replenish replen-ish .its overwhelming forces after hunting season. 1 - J is Amy Henline, Alyssa Johnson, and Jeff Long at the Arizona National Livestock Show. Jeff Long finished fourth in the Intermediate Showman Star Round. - .. J - - - ,.,,.,.. . .... i,,,, Rhet Long Senior ShowmAn took sixth place at the Phoenix Show. Vernal residents place atArizona National Livestock show prudential Ask! 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There's Muttin' Bustin' for the little ones and the 4 times CR.C Clown & furrrwll be here to tickle yow funny bone! Featuring several PBR&CBR Bulls. Witaesstiwlxslbuilriden in the intermountain region! Tlckcto Adults $8, Kids $5, under 4 Free Tickets available at: IFA, Davis Jubilee, - Ths Bull Ring, or Pondcrosa Feed & Tack I bull Of the year! Approved by tt3 Ptofosslond Cowtxy Bull Riding Association ,'9. I r Kevin Christopherson, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources northeastern regional supervisor, super-visor, was named Upper Colorado ' River. Endangered Fish Recovery Program's Outstanding Researcher of the Year. ' ' - Christopherson's . 25-year career includes working with all aspects of fisheries biology including research, fish culture and hatchery operations, conservation con-servation of fish and wildlife and fishery management. He was recognized for his many contributions to recovery of endangered fishes From the beginning his involvement with Recovery Program, Kevin brought a broad fishery prospective pro-spective that has benefited program participants and the endangered fishes," said Kevin Bestgen, director of Colorado State University's Larval Fish Laboratory who presented the award. "Kevin has always presented pre-sented a reasonable and balanced bal-anced viewpoint that is based in science, with the overall objective of recovering the endangered fishes." Christopherson's career has taken him to assignments assign-ments throughout Utah and Washington including work at the fisheries experiment station sta-tion in Logan, as a research biologist in Cedar City, a fisheries fish-eries program manger in Price, a reclamation biologist for PacifiCorp in Washington and a stint as acting southeast regional region-al supervisor in Price. He spent the last eight years of his career in Vernal as the UDWR project leader for native and endangered aquatic aquat-ic species. During that time, he conducted several studies that address how to enhance habitats to recover endangered fishes. Most recently, he docu- mented larval transport and habitat use during high spring flows. He confirmed the larvae drift into flood plain wetlands, some as far as 54 miles from the spawning site. His research also focused on larval survival in the presence of nonnative fish in floodplain wetlands. "These studies are right on target with the Recovery Program's mission by helping help-ing to identify the minimum amount of water necessary to recover these species," said Recovery Program Director Bob Moth. "This information will help us identify the flows necessary neces-sary to move larval endangered fish into the appropriate nursery nurs-ery habitats." Since becomingNortheastern Regional Supervisor earlier this year, his responsibilities have broadened to include all of the wildlife species in north eastern utan. "UDWR is very committed to the conservation of all of the species of Utah, and I feel very fortunate for the opportunity opportu-nity to play a small role in the Endangered Fish Recovery program,'' pro-gram,'' Christopherson said. "The work was rewarding, but my fondest memories are of the many dedicated people who worked on this effort' Christopherson holds a bachelor's bach-elor's degree in biology from the University of Utah and a master's degree in biology from Utah State University. |