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Show 2 Page - the press By JOHN BEST Herald Correspondent Utah's elk herds are better than ever and hunters should expect excellent hunting for this impressive, large game animal. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources estimates 30,000 hunters will enter Utah mountains searching for elk this season. Elk populations are now estimated at 50,000 in Utah, as high as they have ever been. Elk hunters can expect an 18 Bureau The U.S. of Land Forest Service, Management, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, along with other state and federal agencies have developed a partnership with a national conservation organization, Defenders of Wildlife, to create a statewide wildlife viewing network in Utah. This viewing network will be marked by highway signs with a binoculars logo. Motorists began seeing the brown logo signs in SALT LAKE CITY August. The network consists of 92 sites which range statewide from the Flaming Gorge area to Zions National Park to Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge in the West Desert to the Hotel Utah in downtown Salt Lake City. A description of the network is described in an book called the "Utah Wildlife Viewing Guide." "Publications of the Guide fills a real need for Utah residents and tourists alike, who tend to be outdoor oriented," said Jim Cole, full-col- wildlife biologist Wasatch-Cach- e and author of the Utah Wildlife Viewing Guide. "This project is positive in every respect. Obviously, it will provide wonderful opportunities for recreation.. .to simply enjoy many of the 630 species of Utah wildlife. It will also enhance Utah's tourism industry, and will help to build an interest in resource conservation in general." The partnership began about a year ago when Utah's National Forest, Bureau of Land Management, Utah's Division of Wildlife Resources, Parks and Recreation, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Utah Travel Council, Utah Department of Transportation, and Zion Natural History Association, joined with the Defenders of Wildlife to produce the "Utah Wildlife Viewing Guide." . Nearly 200 sites were visited and evaluated before the final 92 were selected. The sites offer a wide of viewing experiences. Some feature species easy to watch from a car or boat like waterfowl, shorebirds, and wading birds In Round Valley or mule deer at the Big Flat site. Other sites, like the Mirror I.ake Nature Trail and the Ferron Reservoir Interpretive Trail, offer short trail hikes, while others present more rigorous challenges, such as the Ptarmigan l.oop in the High Uintas Wilderness area which features the white-taileptarmigan. Some sites offer wildlife viewing in urban settings like Beus Park in Ogden or Dimple Dell Park near Sandy. Most sites are on public lands, but a few, like the Ogden Nature Center, are privately owned and managed. The Utah guide is the third to be published as part of a national series known as the Watchable Wildlife Series which Is sponsored by Defenders of Wildlife and published by Falcon Press of Helena, d Montana. Viewing Guides have been published in Oregon and MonThe Idaho guide was published in late summer. Defenders Intends to develop partnerships to publish wildlife viewing guides in other states. (See VIEW, Page 13) tana. percent chance of year. In some areas herds are growing too rapidly and are causing concern of depredation, or range destruction. To control populations and potential problems, the Board of Big Game approved a recommendation from the DWR to increase antlerless elk permits by 40 percent. There are 5,150 antlerless control permits issued to Utah residents and 500 issued to out of state hunters. Big Game Coordinator Wes Shields says elk have survived the drought conditions much better than deer and their populations are strong. Deer antlerless control permit were reduced this year because of decreases in deer population related to the drought. The Board of Big Game approved a new elk unit for San Juan Elk Ridge and Blue Mountain with five permits granted. The Division of Wildlife is trying to develop management strategies to provide higher quality hunting in many of the state's elk units. There are 17 limited entry areas where hunters can hunt only if their name is drawn from applicants. Assistant Chief of Big Game Grant Jense says, "Applicants in the limited entry elk units have a one in six chance of being drawn. The limited entry areas offer quality hunting with chances of bigger bulls and less crowded hunting conditions." In Utah there are 21 units that hunters can buy permits for. The Manti, Fish Lake and Northwest portion of the Boulder Mountain (Parker Mountain) units are restricted to taking of yearling bulls only. A yearling bull is any elk having antlers with no brow tine or with no antler point longer than four inches on the lower half of the main antler beam. The DWR feels the program on the Manti and Fish Lake area will produce quality bulls in the future with this management plan. The concept is to develop a good biological base says Wes Sheilds, game coordinator. "The chance of more mature bulls should increase calf production. It will also give a better distribution of elk. Now there is one herd bull with 50 to 100 cows. With more mature bulls, the ratio will be one bull with 10 or 12 cows. If the program is successful we will extend it to other units," says Sheilds. The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation headquartered in Troy, Mont., now has 50,000 members nationwide. Although an international program, the Western U.S. has received a large benefit from this organization, because of the habitat and elk numbers in that area. Utah has been a big beneficiary of the RMEF donations, according to Rick Woodard of the Provo Chapter. Herald Correspondent The temperature outside is 35 degrees and there is a wind from the southwest at 10 miles per hour. What perceived temperature should you dress for? Windchill is the coldness that we feel when there is a combination of both temperature and wind. The amount of windchill that we feel is determined by the temperature and how fast the air is moving. The food industry uses cold moving air to chill or freeze our food. When we are outside, our bodies I react to the same principles that ; apply in preserving food. The for-- mula used in the food industry is: 'The rate cooling is equal to the : driving force, the product and the .cooling medium divided by the total of the resistance to heat transfer, i.e., air velocity, thick-iies- s of product, shape of the product and composition of the product. What does this mean to us? The driving force means what is the difference in temperature between this case, the the two objects-- in air temperature and 98.6, our body temperature; our body being the product and the cooling medium, the air. The total of the resistance to heat transfer is a proper way of saying how fast is the air moving, how much do you weigh, are you tall or short, thick or thin? Air velocity plays a critical role in how cold it feels. When the air temperature is zero and the wind is 5 mph, it feels like 6 below. At 20 mph, it would feel like 40 below. This is the reason it is so important to cover up when outside in the cold. A skier easily reaches 20 mph '.and if he or she doesn't have ' enough of the correct layers of clothes on, the wind speed at the skin level quickly goes to 20 mph ; or more, and the perceived temperature drops to the 40 below. Body shape and size plays a large role in how we lost heat. The closer we are to round, the less heat we lose. The closer to flat and wide we are, the faster we lost heat. Food processing plants know that in order to freeze a food faster, they have to keep the temperature and the resistance to heat transfer SEASON Buffalo Ml" .'.A Deer (rifle) Deer (muzzle) Oct. Bighorn sheep Elk (rifle) Moose Sept. .....Oct. Tib l V' ' V BIG GAME TT M. r Hunting seasons -- i :.m J . Til 7 Vja,tr Nov. 15-No- SMALL GAME Bear 17-De- 6, 2 c. 20-3- 0 Nov. Mountain goat success this Watch wind chill factor BY REX C. INFANGER 26, 1990 Elk hunt success expected to hit 1 8 percent says DWR Viewing guide off range HUNTING, Wednesday, September THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 3-- 11 4 v. Sept. ct. Sept. ct. 3-- 16 1 7 SEASON . Sept. 16; Nov. ct DovePigeon 3--30 Sept. Duck Goose Grouse (Forest) Chukar 1-- 30 Oct 3 Oct. 6 n. 30 Sept. Sept. Sept. Hungarian partridge Pheasant Quail Snowshoe 30 31 Nov. 3-- 16 Nov. 3-- 16 Sept. 31 n. RUBliiiiii cup HAND STITCHED f ...sau'1 U0& SOCCER BALLS,lW rig cl tfZtf SOCCER EQUIPMENT SHOES $2995 SHJNGUARDSS475 mifro II tilla John Best photo Just ask Joe Park of Orem how much he likes Utah's elk hunt. Some of the Utah projects the ', RMEF has assisted in include: Mount Dutton prescribed burn: seed mix for 200 acres of an 800 acre prescribed burn con- ducted to rejuvenate decadent as-pen stands, reduce forest fuel load and increase habitat diversity in heavy conifer stands in the Dixie National Forest. prove forage quality, quantity and diversity. Reduce private land ag- ricultural depredations in the ley National Forest, Alma Taylor ElkTimber Project: Selectively thin, burn and revegatate 400 acres of springfall winter areas with high quality grass, forage and shrub species; develop new seep areas for poten- - ''Applicants the limited entry elk units have a one in six chance of being drawn. The limited entry areas offer quality hunting with chances of bigger bulls and less crowded hunting conditions." in A 1 se ABSOLUTE PERFORMANCE j INDOOR SOCCER LEAGUE to lde (10 Player Tnitit) TWO SEPARATE SEASONS 1.) NOV. 3 to DEC. 29,1990 2.) JAN. 5 to FEB. 23, 1991 8 r k ' V v Game pliytd tvtry Saturday at Qrandvlaw Jr. High In DIRECTOR: JIM DUSARA, Ph.D. -O- 15 YEARS OYS, GIRLS & ADULT TEAMS HEAD SOCCER COACH AT BYU a Oram PEN TO ALL -B- ALL SKILL LEVELS WELCOME Cost: $25. Includes league play and Game - j JxVw STUCK IN Iop Brand JD SOCCER SPECIALTY SHOP 1 in SOCCER 1215 N. Stata DWR's Grant Jense Orem Heber AccQs Management Regeneration: Cle, scarify and defunct roads and areas of springsummerfall wildlife habitat which have been "roaded" by unauthorized and indiscriminate motor vehicle use in the Uinta National Forest. Dry Gulch Aspen regeneration: Selectively thin 40 acres of over re-se- , mature aspen stands used as springsummerfall habitat by elk and other wildlife to stimulate as- pen regrowth and forage diversity in the Ashley National Forest. Grouse Creek Prescribed Burn: Prescribed burn of 350 acres of sagebrushaspen community to ini tial wallows and watering sources in the Ashley National Forest. Dameron Canyon Chaining and Seeding: Mechanically treat and reseed 1,000 acres of wildlife winter range to improve forage, increase forage diversity and reduce private land depredations in the Fish Lake National Forest, according to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. 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