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Show k i- de Page 10 Nephi, Utah' 'JEtmea-Nefri- B Wednesday, August 11, 1999; Dove, pigeon and waterfowl hunters are encouraged to register in HIP early this year Migratory game bird hunters can get an early jump on preparing for Utahs upcoming dove, d pigeon and water-fow- l seasons by registering in the Migratory Game Bird Harvest Information Program (HIP) now. All dove, band-taile- d pigeon, duck, goose, swan, coot, snipe band-taile- mandated HIP is to improve combination license available. must prove that they have management of the nations migratory game bird populations by collecting better information on hunter participation and harvest. The Division of Wildlife Resources is cooperating with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in implementing the HIP, which Utah became involved in and sandhill crane hunters, throughout the United States, last year. There is no charge to register are required to register in the HIP each year. and registration takes about five Hunters who registered in minutes to complete. Tb become 1998 are reminded that they registered, all migratory game must register again if they plan bird hunters must call on hunting migratory game birds Before calling, hunters must this year. The purpose of the federally have their 1998 small game or 4-- Visionary Computers tract. This commits people to form an partnership to seek ways to save earth. The Cross Generational Contract is part of a fun and interactive brochure available from NaCouncil. tional To learn more about the eco-activi- ty 4-- H Upgrades 4-- H Environmental Stewardship New Computers Quality Products Repairs Program, contact the county Cooperative Extension office in your county. To see the complete results of the Earth View survey, order copies of the Earth View brochure and learn about national oppor- Call Fred at tunities and resources, visit the Council website at National wwwfourhcouncil.eduyceearth link.htm. 623-727- 4-- H 4-- H 4 regis- tered in the HIP by presenting their hunting license with their HIP number written on it. Some hunters will receive a follow-u- p diary in the mail to keep track of their effort and harvest during the year and will be asked to return it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service after the season. All of the information obtained through the HIP is used to estimate hunter activity and success. Improved harvest information will allow Utah and the U.S. number. Fish and Wildlife Service to If contacted by a wildlife law make better management decienforcement officer in the field, sions. The HIP registration number migratory game bird hunters is much like a duck stamp, in From page 8 that it is valid for the entire 1999-200- 0 waterfowl hunting season, even though you need a new hunting license each JanuH Hunters will be asked to provide their 1998 hunting license number and license code key, name, address, date of birth and the approximate number of doves, ducks and geese they harvested in 1998. Hunters are then given a HIP registration number they must write in the space provided on their 1999 license. Lifetime license holders are provided a sticker to attach to the back of their license card for entry of the current seasons HIP Black-foote- d ferrets may be returning to Utah The rarest mammal in North d America, the ferret, may be returning to Utah as early as this fall, according to the black-foote- Black-foote- o Utah-Colorad- Fer- d ret Working Group. Coyote Basin in northeastern Utah is the Utah site that has been selected. i mittee comprised of local representatives from industry, government and environmental groups. This cooperative plan was finalized in file spring of 1997 after public review and input through the five Regional Advisory Coun--: cils for the Utah Division ofMid- life Resources. The plan was approved by the Utah Wildlife Board on June 11, 1997. q All reintroduction efforts for. d ferret to date the have been based on the lOj rules (experimentalnonessential pop? ulation classification) in the En-- j . dangered Species Act. On Oct. 1, 1998, Uintah and Duchesne counties were declared by the U.S1 Fish and Midlife Service. This designation relaxes restrictions ferd The secretive rets, which are most active at night, were once declared extinct before a small population was found on a ranch in Meeteese, Wyoming. When diseases threatened the only known wild population, the last 18 ferrets were collected and moved to a breeding facility. Since then several breeding facilities, including six ary. zoos, have been successful in For example, if you are hunt- raising and breeding roughly 300 d ing ducks in January 2000 you ferret kits a year. to allow reintroduction of endanwill need a new 2000 hunting li- Most of these ferrets have been gered animals to take place with--; cense, but your HIP number from made available for reintroduc- out changing the normal use and the fall of 1999 is still valid. The tion. activities of an area. Division advises hunters to carUtahs Coyote Basin is the fifth In 1997, preconditioning an$ ry both their new 2000 hunting site selected for reintroduction breeding pens were built at Irish license and their 1999 hunting and may receive ferrets this fall, Canyon near Browns Park in license with the HIP number if the Group can complete the Colorado and the first written on it during the January necessary preparations in time. d ferrets were intro The Group has been working duced to those pens in 1998. Adportion of the season. Hunters must register again in steadily toward this goal since ditional work includes diseasi 1 the fall of 2000 for the the early 1980s. Their first ef- testing and expanding the preseason and must write their new forts were to locate wild conditioning pens with a second HIP registration number on their ferret populations in set in Browns Park. When this 2000 license. Utah and Colorado. When they is done, the U.S. Fish and WildFor more information hunters didnt find any, the Group began life Service will decide on the fimay call their nearest Division surveying and qualifying the nal distribution of ferrets raised 1 office, or the Divisions Salt Lake habitat of the ferrets primary in the breeding facilities. Public City office at (801) prey, the prairie dog. input is still requested Four main areas were located. through Sept. 3 for comments on Each had large, extended colo- impacts to amend Bureau of nies with the necessary numbers Land Management planning docfer- uments. Written comments to d of prairie dogs ret families need to survive. the EA (Environmental Assess-mentThese were then winnowed down should be submitted to the to sites that presented the least Bureau of Land Management, conflicts with human use and Vernal Field Office, Attn. Bill development, while providing a Stroh, 170 S. 500 E., Vernal, UT reintroduced ferret population 84078. ,.j . Members of the with the best chances for survivBlack-foote- d al. Ferret Working; include the Utah Division; Cooperative management Group plans, Memorandums of Under- of Wildlife Resources, Colorado' standing, agreements between Division of Wildlife, Bureau of. participating agencies, and pub- Land Management, U.S. Fish lic and agency documents were and Wildlife Service and the then prepared while biologists Wildlife Services Division of the mapped the proposed release U.S. Animal and Plant Health sites, monitored prairie dog col- Inspection Service. onies and checked for diseases. 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