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Show Page 10 tllfje Christmas tree tags will not be sold at the district office The Sanpete Ranger District plans to sell 1400 Christmas tree tags for personal use. Tags will be sold one per family to a representative of the family. A Forest Service Officer will be at the designated areas between 9:00 a.m. and noon on Saturday November 30, to sell tags at $5.00 each on e a basis. We will sell the prescribed number of tags or stop selling tags at the indicated time, whichever comes first. We will not sell tags at the District Office this year. Historically, all of the assigned tags have sold out in Spring City, first-com- e, first-serv- The Forest Officer selling tags will issue each purchaser cutting instructions. Vehicle access, ex- cept for snow machines, must be confined to established roads. The public is cautioned that the roads may be snow packed and slick. If you have purchased a valid Christmas tree tag, trees may be cut in the designated areas on the weekends of November 30, December 1 and December 7 and 8, 14 and 15. Cutting trees in any other areas or at any other times will be in violation, unless written permission from the Sanpete Ephraim, Manti, Nephi and Ranger District has been seFountain Green. There have cured. been tags left over at Sale of tags will be at the foland Twelve-Mil- e Canyons. lowing designated areas from Six-Mi- le MU 4-- D toll-fre- Fountain Green and Nephi which will be at the times listed below: Stock Corral East of Spring 350 tags End of Paved Road Ephraim Canyon 200 tags Below Forest Boundary Manti Canyon 200 tags tags will be sold in the parking lot of the LDS Church in Sterling this year 200 tags Canyon: Stock Corral East of Mayfield 300 tags Fountain Green Elementary School Parking Area, 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. 75 tags Nephi District Office, 740 South Main, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p m. 75 tags The tags sold at Fountain Green and Nephi are for harvesting of trees on the Sanpitch Mountains. Ranger Tom Shore encourages everyone to please observe all State and Federal laws. He says that the reason for limiting the number of tags in each designated area is to prevent over harvest of the available trees. If everyone will follow the rules to be given at the time of tag purchase, City 12-Mi- le Wednesday, November 201996 Rules for Utah's 1997 big game hunts Utah Wildlife Board by approved hunters hunters dont Big game will apply in over-the-count-er (RAC) meetings opposed it. Utahs big game draw applica- tion period will be January 1997. Permits for the general archery, general season and gen-- , 1, In addition to the Wasatch season archery buck deer permit may hunt there. 9 work with landowners, our Physically impaired January for 1997 permits avail- may request a certificate of regable through Utahs big game istration for 30 extra days to draw, and purchase general sea- hunt big game in limited entry son buck deer permits units only. in April, after the Utah The Vernon buck deer hunt Wildlife Board approved the unit, formerly a limited entry 1997 Utah Big Game Proclamaunit, will be a general season tion at a November 14 meeting. hunt area in 1997. General archery, general seaThe board approved a Division son and general muzzleloader proposal to change the unit to a buck deer permits for all five of general season unit due to conthe Division of Wildlife Resourc- cerns from hunters that hunting es regions will be available in the area wasnt up to limited The Division had entry standards. The board also approved proposed making Southern and Southeastern Region permits Southern Region RAC recomavailable through the big game mendations related to how limdraw in 1997, but withdrew the ited entry bull elk permits in a proposal after the majority of number of the regions units people in attendance at recently should be distributed. The Diviheld Regional Advisory Council sion had proposed having any Front extended archery hunt Utah also will have a Uinarea, er District, 540 North Main, Basin extended archery hunt tah Ephraim, Utah 84627 or call area in 1997, allowing those hunting the area additional time to take a deer of either sex. The hunt in the Uintah Basin extended archery hunt area will run 6. and any August hunter who obtains a general Plumbing and Builders Supply 623-119- 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon except for Your cooperation will be appreciated. If you have questions, please contact the Sanpete Rang- 4-- D 66 South Main, Nephi, Utah Nephi, Utah oa eral muzzleloader buck deer the harvesting of personal hunts, and the general archery Christmas trees can and will con- elk and general season bull elk tinue. Unfortunately, every year hunts, go on sale April 21. people are caught and prosecutOther changes that await big ed for cutting trees without purhunters in 1997: game chasing a tag or not following the General Bull Elk Hunt the other established rules. Situa- Boulder and LaSal Mountain tions like this jeopardize every- units will be spike only units, ones opportunity to continue while the Buckhom unit will be enjoying the experience of cut- a general season, any bull unit ting a family Christmas tree. in 1997. and Plumbing have joined e statetogether to bring wide paging to our area. Pagers start at $43.00 with monthly service for as little as $6.50 per month. Contact Plumbing for details. We can activate the pagers on the spot for your convenience. 4-- D tEimea-jNef- ' - land-owne- rs ' ' 'l La v ' ir ' t mm O - i, It1 $I -- iL i K ..Jr iu. jcwMLJa Skwlft .titfSK A & 3 ffZteoGCb I , D y f i - H p 44 This CD rate is just too big to overlook. See your First Security Bank office today and lock in this great rate. great 24-mon- th M Member F.D.I.C. Offer good for new Certificates of Deposit (CDs) through November 23, 1 996 only. The minimum balance to open cm account and obtain the Annual Percentage Yield (APY) is $1000, the maximum is $250,000. A penalty may be imposed lor early withdrawal. This CD is not valid with rate increase CD. any other offer. Offer also not allowed for the one-time T re- duced." Coles explained that many landowners, if they dont receive a regular opportunity to hunt, are less likely to manage their lands for big game. The Southern and Southeastern regions were chosen because permits sell out in those regions first, making it more difficult for hunters, including landowners, to obtain them. An advisory committee, comprised of landowners, sportsmen, Division staff and three RAC chairs, will present details of the proposal to the board in January or February. In a non-bi- g game related matweapons permits available in the ter, the Division approved turkey units. Tb provide hunters a great- permits for Utahs 1997 turkey er variety of hunting opportuni- hunts. ties, the RAC recommended perThe board approved Division mits be allocated among the armuzzle-loade- r RAC recommendations to and and chery, any weapon hunts. The board ap- establish 17 Rio Grande and four proved the RAC recommenda- Merriams turkey limited entry hunt units in the state for the tion. In an effort to encourage pri- 1997 spring hunts. The board approved a total of vate landowners to manage critical winter ranges for big game, 363 permits for the four Merrthe board approved a Division iams units and a total of 240 permits for the 17 Rio Grande units. and RAC proposal to allow The Milford turkey hunting in the Divisions Southern and Southeastern regions a unit will be closed in 1997. The certain number ofbuck deer per- board approved the closure because of the tremendous amount mits for the 1997 season. Under a current landowner of habitat lost as a result of wildpermit system, landowners are fires in the unit this past sumable to obtain anterless deer per- mer. One change in Utah turkey mits only. Twenty percent of the states hunting this year was the credeer utilize ranges that are pri- ation, in some units, of early vately owned, Floyd Coles, Divi- spring and late spring hunts. sion regional wildlife manager, Having two different hunts will told the board. provide less crowded hunting We rely on a lot of these pub- conditions, improving the qualilic lands for management of our ty of the hunt and providing a deer herds, Coles said. If we safer hunting experience. 1 31 iiteO-i- deer populations will be |