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Show Page 6, G.E.M.S., Thursday, October 20, 1994 ' ' ?' Hunting with Horses? Take Certified Hay 'I f f ' ll. 'i ' V fe V 4 ' If you are planning to hunt with designated noxious weeds. Fields horses this fall, you need to be aware include any ditches, fence lines or of a new regulation designed to roadways which surround or go prevent the spread of noxious weeds through a field. on Forest Service lands within the . Each field mast be inspected and State of Utah. certified separately. Hay must be The regulation states no one may inspected in the field prior to cutting. possess, store or transport any hay Each crop or cutting must be or straw which hasn't been inspected inspected. , . and certified to be weed-fre- e by a Baled hay may be inspected in lots Utah Department of Agriculture of 25 bales or less and a percentage designated inspector. Additionally, ; of the bales have to be opened. ; , supplemental grain or grain products Requests for inspections must be must meet Utah Commercial Feed made 10 days prior to cutting. There ' ' - ' r Act standards. are just 13 inspectors throughout the The new law took effect the first of , state and scheduling is necessary to this year and violators are subject to . meet all requests. Inspection fees are a $5,000 fine or six months in prison charged at current rates set by the fe or both.' Utah Department of Agriculture. To obtain certification, hay must be For more information, call Utah 4 .. 4 .:s j I r t . " 4 S$S 4 'v. .4 'V 44" : 44 ' t ,4: (1 - grown in fields free from all 4' M deer was caught just resting under a tree - however this weekend he will have to be on the run or some lucky ' V. hunter will shoot him. ,.n. This ; v; '4 Department of Agriculture field representative James Dalebout at ' ext 276. 896-926-2, Utah Hunting myths- - - - What's the Truth? affluour andSM' neads, 788 West Main - Salina 29-1055- Stob I or-af-a ' -5- Don & We have all heard the story about the California hunter who shot a mule the deer season and brought it proudly into the checking station! Or the one about the Division of Wildlife Resourcesbeingseentheweekbefore the opener of the elk hunt dropping cherry bombs and flour sacks out of airplanes to scatter animals so that hunters would have no luck. Oh yeah, and the one about DWR cutting the antlers off elk and deer just before the seasons to save animals! Annually, we hear the same stories and over again from friends and acquaintances. Theyre entertain- - Joylayne Okerlund ing, but how much can we believe? Who knows where these stories gan? Maybe they originate when hunters, sitting around campfires and coffee shops, just shoot the breeze. But one hunting myth is very real and very serious. Many hunters think its OK to buy their spouse a big game permit and fill the tag for them, while theyre in camp drinking coffee. Others believe its OK to continue to hunt to help friends harvest a limit of birds, even though theyve already taken a limit them-ovselves. Party hunting steals from the ng ed er 574 South Main - Gunnison 528-394- 9 from someone else who witnessed these events. No descriptions of vehicles or colors and tail numbers from airplanes can be recollected. But party hunting is no myth. Wildlife gets destroyed and squandered and everyone loses. Hunters should remember that only the person with the permit may harvest the animal. Honest hunters can help curb this kind of unethical, illegal behavior by reporting violations to the Help Stop sue big game yearly, some may have antlered animal tags and others may have antlerless tags. All hunters go afield, and those who think party hunting is alright, shoot anything they see, regardless of whether it has antlers or not They know someone back at camp has a tag they can put on it However, many animals are left to rot and wasted because the person who had the tag already took an animal and cant tag another their buddy shot for them. The stories about the mule in the checking station and cherry bombs in so-call- Breakfast Specials 6- conrest of the citizens of the state too! It elk herds are folklore-tal- es takes away from those who enjoy cocted and passed from generation to wildlife and pillages wildlife populageneration, when people are asked tions. Every year, conservation offic- questions about their knowledge of mules in checking stations and airers and biologists investigate numerous illegal big game kills. 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