Show 7 August 22 2001 Gunnison Valley NewsSalina Sun n Hunting News 1 LJ Anterless Big Game Hunting Permits Available Aug 29 am on August 29 After August 29 the office will return to its regular hours which are 7:30 am to 5 pm Mondays through Fridays The office will be closed for Labor Day on Monday September 3 Hunters who want to obtain a permit through the mail can do so by mailing an antlerless permit application form to the Salt Lake City office Applicafrom (wwwnrutahgovdwr tion formsandare availablelicense dwrhtm) hunting fishing Beginning August 29 these agents statewide Division ofremaining antlerless’ permits fices and hunter education centers and the Division's Internet will be available on a Website basis either For more information call the or through the mail from the Division of Wildlife Re- nearest Division of Wildlife Resources' Salt Lake City office sources office or the Division's Hunters who don't obtain a big game huntUtah's draws will have another chance for one beginning August 29 A list of permits that weren't sold in Utah's second antlerless draw will be available by August 27 at Division of Wildlife Resources offices and hunter education centers and the Division's Internet Web site 2001 antlerless ing permit in Salt Lake City office at (801) only ike office Temple is at 1594 W North will be open at 6 10 weeks anyway! bike trampoline exercise equipment marble collection or whatever IT season 2 during the 2000 - 2001 seaThe board also approved a total quota of 339 cougars be taken on harvest objective units a reduction of 32 from the 371 quota set for Utah's 2000 2001 season With the reductions the Di- It's likely that hunters will take fewer cougars during Utah's 2001 - 2002 cougar season At its meeting Aug 16 in Salt Lake 'City the Utah Wildlife Board approved slight reductions in the number of hunters who may hunt on the state's limited entry hunt areas and the number of cougars hunters may take on the state's harvest objective areas The board approved 258 able son lim- an population of cougars in Utah The plan sets several mance targets that are designed to keep Utah's cougar popula-a- s tions healthy They include gets that call for the percent of cougars taken by hunters that are six years of age or older to or greater average Division of Wildlife Resources each season that the total adult The plan has allowed hunt- - survival in a population be to take enough cougars to percent or more and that the help depressed deer herds in number of females in the locations while main- - vest not exceed of the over- taining Management units under predator management plans are exempt from these performance targets With the plan as a guide the board If by chance you are a sucapproved decreases in the number of cougars to be cessful hunter let us know! taken on 15 units Harvest levWe are glad to run a limels on 25 units will remain ited number of trophy shots equal to those from last year during the next few weeks while increases were approved Just submit the following information: on five units to benefit deWho is pictured when the pressed deer populations hunt happened and locaThe 2001 - 2002 cougar’ hunttion if you are man enough ing season on most of Utah's to reveal your secret hunting limited entry areas will run spot Send photo and information to GVNewsSalina Sun Box 189 Gunnison UT 84634 or email to newsgtelconet Old West Paging & Look for doves in dead trees in trees Although not required by law it's a good idea to wear hunter orange during the first week of the Mourning Dove hunt Ball caps and vests in hunter orange help tremendously in reducing the chances of a firearms accident while afield with many other hunters Respecting private property will go a long way in maintaining future access privileges for hunters Small things like picking up and packing out spent shotgun hulls and other trash when exiting the shooting field closing gates and avoiding livestock areas are common etiquettes that demonstrates to landowners that hunters are responsible i ab erf is that about 400 be taken during this upcoming season compared to the 435 it projected hunters would take this past season The cougar hunting permit and quota recommendations were made to the board based on how well cougar populations are doing at reaching ob- jectives set forth in Utah's Cou- gar Management Plan "The Board approved the plan in 1999 and it has served a useful guide in helping biologists make cougar hunting recommendations" said Dr Mike Wolfe mammals program coordinator for the projecting will doves and provide birds with an excellent source of food and cover After feeding doves pick up grit along roadways and then fly to water The middle part of the day is spent loafing and roosting to be roosting Resources of Wildlife vision ited entry hunting permits for the 2001 - 2002 season a reduction of 14 from the 272 avail- - from December 15 2001 to June 2 2002 limi- ted will Applications for entry cougar permits be available by Oct 2 The season on most harvest objective areas will run from December 15 2001 to June 2 2002 or until the number of cougars to be taken on that area has been reached at which point the hunt on that area will end the season Harvest objective area permits will be available from Division of Wildlife Resources offfor ices only beginning November 27 In another matter the board voted to provide more limited entry permits to Utah residents by limiting the number of permits available to nonresidents to no more than 10 percent of the total permits available Show It Off! 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FOR ONLY homet car boat List HOW by Utah Wildlife approved If®!J?l FonSale ‘For 2001-200- JUST HOT rules New Mourning Dove Hunt Opener predicted to be good by DWR the day As daylight diminishes in the fall doves are stimulated to move to their windoves revere continues until tering areas in Mexico and CenThe DWR is proSeptember 1 Utah's dove hunt' tral America ers should enjoy a good opener hibited by the Migratory Bird to the state's 2001 season Treaty Act (1918) and internaPitional treaties with Canada and Utah's 2001 geon season also begins Sep- Mexico from opening doves seasons earlier than September tember 1 each year Dean Mitchell upland game Dove hunters who normally coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources provides hunt in northern Utah but get the following season forecast frustrated when there are few birds around should give Mourning Dove Data collected by Division of Utah's southern counties a try Wildlife Resources biologists Millard Beaver Iron and Washfrom 15 dove "call count" sur- ington counties in southwestvey routes conducted this past ern Utah and Emery and San May indicated that Mourning Juan counties in the southeast Dove breeding populations in commonly harbor birds until Utah were down from 2000 later in the year Some of Utah's The number of doves heard most prosperous dove hunting along routes was down 46 per- occurs in the southern part of cent from 2000 and the number the state of doves observed along routes The 2001 Mourning Dove season will remain open was down 56 percent An unusually cold period through September 30 Bag and during the annual dove call possession limits will be 10 and count survey may have ac- 20 respectively Mourning counted for the drop in breed- Dove and Pigeon ing dove numbers counted hunters are reminded that they Male birds that are typically are required to register under the federal Migratory Game very vocal during the May count were likely much quieter or had Bird Harvest Information Pronot yet arrived in the state be- gram (HIP) before going afield for these two migratory species cause of the cold weather Despite the respectable numRegistration requirements and ber of birds in L'tah right now the process for obtaining a FIIP many could head south before number are described beginthe season opener because of a ning on page 7 of the Utah Upland Game ProclamaCountlack of food resources less grain (wheat and barley) tion HIP numbers also may be fields did poorly this year or obtained through the DWR were not planted because of a Upland Game Web page at: shortage of irrigation water http:wwwnrutahgov Mid- - and end of August dwr upland btmHIP To be most effective during the stormy weather always has a tendency to push doves on their season hunters should keep in southward migration’ How- mind the daily activity routine ever DWR biologists have of doves The birds normally learned that regardless of what feed early in the morning and the weather does some Mourn- again late in the day Doves are ing Doves begin to leave Utah almost exclusively seed eaters about the first week in August and as such prefer areas with These biids begin their annual wheatstubble com oats and southward migration based on all kinds of weedy patches the photoperiod or length of Sunflowers often harbor many irs STYLES: Fewer Cougars to be taken in and it There were a lot of Mourning Doves in Utah in and if the hot dry weather that LIFE: OA - Tj0 (702) -— J Extencion: 8080 LINEADE TRABAJOS 2 Darin says he loves you Melissa thinks that same thing too Ryan hopes your day is the best Cutler agrees she's the mom of the West Kayli says her mom is in the groove says she’s KeVy Legal services starting at DIVORCE still a ‘61 Classic running smooth Uncontested Whether you sell in the first week or the 10th week the price is the same call the sunNews 528-311- 1 Classifieds today: BAUKRUPTCY Chapter 7 or I |