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Show Tuesday November 16, 1999 9B Emery County Pros'ess, Castfe Dale. Utah Emery Rocho team preparing fo Dixie 6 EHS rodeo team results By TANA ALLRED By SAMANTHA WIL- SON Team Reporter Members of the Emery High Rodeo Team will travel to St. George the next three weekends to participate in the Dixie 6. Two rodeos will be held each weekend with approximately 800 contestants per rodeo. The team, so far this season, has already competed in 12 rodeos from Randolph to Kanab. Eight of the eleven members have already qualified for the Utah State Finals to be held in June of 2000. They include: Pam Abrams, Tana Allred, Samantha Wilson, Hank Allred, Moriah Allred, Kyle Congratulations to all of those who got points or qualified in the following rodeos. Sevier Rodeo - Team Roping; HankAllred 4th place. Piute Rodeo - Bare-bacWill Payne 9th place. Bull Riding; Moriah Allred 1st place. Team Roping; k; Fox, Carson Grimm, and Will Payne. Current Top Ten state standings include, from the Emery Team, Moriah Allred, 5th in Bulls and 7th in Bare-bacWill Payne, 3rd in Bulls. Kyle Fox, 6th in Team Rop- k; Kyle Fox 1st place. ing. Everyone wishes the team continued good luck and Richfield Rodeo Moriah Allred 1st place. Bull Riding; Will Payne 3rd place. Calf Roping; Kyle Fox 10th place. -- Bareback; Gorgeous fall weather did affect this years hunt Perfect fall weather, scat- line with the target number tered deer and fewer calls on of 15,900 total permits allothe Division of Wildlife Re- cated to the deer hunt area. Northeastern sources poaching hotline Region were all part of Utahs re- Wildlife Manager Steve Cranney said fewer hunters cently completed general were checked by biologists season buck deer hunt. at both the Strawberry Val1 The hunt ran Oct, and featured ideal fall ley and Manila deer check weather for the estimated stations. The number of 80,000 hunters, and thou- bucks checked at both check sands of their nonhunting stations was also lower, alfamily and friends, who took though the percentage of to the hills and mountains of mature bucks was higher the state to eryoy a Utah tra- than previous years, with the dition. Strawberry Valley station For most of the hunt they showing almost 50 percent were greeted with crisp mature bucks in the harvest. The only area that apmornings and warm days that allowed great access to peared significantly lower in hunting areas, and pleasant success was the eastern porconditions for walking the tion of the South Slope unit hills in search of deer and north of Roosevelt. This may have been due to heavy relaxing at camp. The warm, dry weather antlerless elk hunting presalso seemed to affect hunter sure in the area for several weeks prior to the deer hunt success this year. In the Divisions Northern opener, Cranney said. Cranney said the exRegion, the number of deer checked at its six check sta- tremely warm, dry hunting tions Oct. 23 and 24 was up conditions that prevailed rifle about 15 percent over last throughout the nine-da- y year, said Northern Region deer season did not favor a Wildlife Lou heavy buck harvest, particuManager Comicelli. larly in higher elevation arComicelli said the animals eas with reduced road acchecked were in good, physicess, such as the High cal shape and that their body Uintas. In the southeastern corsize was about the same as ner of Utah, the number of last year. Hunters may have taken deer taken in the San Juan . more deer, if the weather and LaSal units was down conditions would have been about 10 to 20 percent this different. For the weather year, said Steve Flinders, we had. the hunt wasnt too Southeastern Region wildlife manager. bad," Comicelli said. Both units had some of Comicelli said the warm, Utahs in deer the weather highest success rates dry kept region scattered at higher in 1998. Hunter pressure elevations. The dry vegeta- was phenomenal in the two tion also made it difficult for units in 1998 and hunters hunters to sneak up on deer. really took a lot of bucks," Comicelli also said the deer Flinders said. "That really werent in need of food as hurt buck to doe ratios in much as they would be in the two, small units." Flinders said success on harsher conditions and because of that, they werent as the portion of the Manti unit active and didn't move as located in the Southeastern much. Region was about the same In the Divisions Central as last year. Included among Region, regional wildlife the deer taken in the unit several high quality, manager Dale Liechty re- were mature deer. a in number the ported drop In southwest Utah, the of deer checked through the Spanish Fork Canyon check number of deer taken was up station Oct. 23 and 24, which slightly, said Jeff Grandison, he also attributes to the wildlife manager in the weather. Liechty said the Divisions Southern Region. A total of 1,066 hunters number of deer checked decreased from 369 in 1998, to were checked Oct. 24 at the Divisions Bloomington 284 this year. b He said one reason for the check station, located off the Arizona state drop might be that the line.near Almost all of the huntwarmer weather kept hunters in the high country ers who came through the longer, and that they came station were nonresidents, in through the check station most of whom had huntedand area with deer after it had the Southern Region were on their way home, closed for the night. less also said He deer may Grandison said. Of the hunters who came 'have b$en taken because they were scattered and through the station, 51 perharder to locate this year. He cent of those who hunted in also said the dry conditions the Southern Region had forced a greater than normal taken a deer, compared to 48 number of deer in the Cen- percent last year. Of the hunters who tral Region out of the high outside of the hunted down into prcountry and 42 percent be-- . Southern fields Region, ivate, agricultural a had taken deer, compared fore the hunt. 47 to last in year. percent the challenges Despite locating deer, Liechty said Grandison said most of most. of. the hunters. he these hhnters had hunted in talked with .wee pleased the Southeastern Region, with the number of deer they mostly in the Manti and, saw, and also in the deer's LaSal units,, ; said the Grandison a see per, tWe did naturity.th'ari of in the centage normal yearlings pergreater harvest rose from 68 percent centage of two and a half in 1998, to 76 percent his year-old, three and a half Team Roping; Kyle Fox 4th place. Kanab Rodeo - Bare-bac- k; Payne 67th place. Calf Roping; Hank Allred 9th place. In the state standings; Bareback; Moriah .Allred 7th place. Bulls; Will Payne 3rd place, Moriah Allred 45th split. Again Congratulations and Good Luck for the remainder of the rodeo season. Will 23-3- Price Chapter of the National Wildlife Turkey Federation gives check to DWR Recently, Terry Sanslow, President of the Price River Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) presented a check to Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) Wildlife Biologist, Brad Crompton in the amount of $1938. The $1900 plus will pay for the of 15 wild turkeys, which the NWTF plans to bring into Utah. Sanslow indicates that once wild turkeys are released, they tend to scatter over a broad area. Radio telemetry allows biologists to relocate the birds, identify their habitat preferences, nesting success and rate of mortality. According to Sanslow, approximately 10,000 wild turkeys occur in Utah at present. Although that number seems very respectable, the NWTF hopes to eventually raise that figure to 200,000! There will be 300 more turkey permits issued in the year 2000 than in 1999," reports Sanslow. Within three years, we intend to boost the population such that permits for the Rio Grande can be issued Currently, permittees must draw for this hunting opportunity. radio-instrumenti- pressure was noticeably down in the Southern Region this year and that hunters were hunting in sum- mertime, shirt sleeve weather." He said a bright, full moon during the hunt allowed deer to feed at night, which made them less active during the day. For reasons that havent been explained, a lot of deer came out of higher elevations in the region and were found by hunters on lower, winter ranges this year. really dont know why move down at that time they of yean" Grandison said. The number of poaching We sub-speci- over-the-counter- ." fice. total of three still under investigation, nt Cal' for 3i Appointment A Ysne 39 North 600 East Street Pnce.Utah 84501 (435)637-045- 0 feel good rataraty with... Possible warning signs: Many people first begin to'recognize signs of a hearing loss in their late 40s. 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