Show r 2G Cen Sunday March 22 1337 Outdoors Hunter success was slightly higher in 1986 E i 2 "A jixw "S V r the RIGHT 'e ccM r eo ‘or hunt The annual big game harvest summary reports that 167125 hunters shot 53676 bucks during the regular season hunt a 32 percent success rate In 1985 177484 hunters killed 53773 bucks for a 30 percent rate “The weather was horrible" Grandisaid “I was up in Kamas and Coalville aid the roads were nearly impassable The Cache was a mud mess Lost Creek was a mud mess If the weather had been better the success rate might not have been as high but more deer would have been taken" Local hunters generally found less success than the statewide average with the exception of the western Box Elder County Lost Creek and East Canyon hunting units Jeff Grandison wildlife biologist for the DWR Northern Region attributed the decline in hunters to the poor weather that plagued the opening weekend of Harvest figures on local units: Western Box Elder County Unit Raft Valley part — 3039 hunters 931 bucks 31 percent Grouse Fewer deer hunters took to the Utah hills in 1986 but their chances of success were slightly higher than in 1985 according to figures released last week b the Utah Disision of Wildlife Resources Creek part — 2712 1315 43 percent Promontory part — 2686 1223 46 percent Unit 2 Cache Logan part — 3377 hunters 722 bucks 21 percent Blacksmith Fork part — 2382 658 28 percent Unit 3 west part — 1304 hunters 396 bucks 30 percent east part — 843 269 32 percent or better) Unit 4 Wellsville — 1659 hunters 370 bucks 22 percent Unit 5 Woodruff south part — 2320 hunters 659 bucks 28 percent north part — 1191 360 30 percent Unit 6 Lost Creek — 2257 hunters 1027 bucks 46 percent Unit 7 Ogden River — 3385 hunters son permit winners names The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources drew permit winners for moose bufTalo desert bighorn and Rocky Mountain goat Friday According to DWR information officer Steve Phillips Northern Utah hunters did not draw any permits for desert bighorn sheep The following is a list of Northern Utah permit winners in the buffalo and Rocky Mountain sheep Space and deadline limitations did not permit publishing moose permit winners A list of all permit winners is posted at the DWR Northern Regional office 515 E 5300 S Because of the large number of applicants the DWR will not release winners names by telephone Buffalo 00 Henrv Mountains hunt no 20 600 applications Robby Ooden D Scott Tracy Ooden Buffalo hunt no 601 Henry Mountains 30 Patrick Chiolev permits applications Rov Tony Cross Kurt Ooden Davis Honevville Randv L Gamble Ooden Roy J Hver Brioham City Don A Rose Plain City West Roy James Buffalo hunt no 610 Antelope Island 82 applications J Todd Anderson W Bailey den Robert Ooden Sheldon J Lewis Kavsville Lavar G Peterson - permits - Rocky den Mountain eoat - JR Anderson Proposed fish kill topic of discussion mates up to 95 percent of all fish in the reservoir will be killed The lake will then be restocked with Bear Lake cutthroat trout kokance salmon and sterilized rainbow trout The seminar will be held at the Lee Kay Center for Hunter Education 6000 W 2100 S Frontage Road in Salt Lake City State parks in need of campground hosts SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Division of Parks and Recreation is looking for volunteers to serve as campground hosts in a number of state parks across the state Volunteers will live and work in the park Responsibilities include some park management providing visitor information and minor maintenance The state provides worker’s compensation and tort liability insurance Park areas include Bear Lake Willard Bay East Canyon Hyrum Dead Horse Point Deer Creek Escalante Green River Goblin Valley Hunting-toMillsite Minersville Otter Creek Palisade Scofield Snow Steinaker Canyon Starvation and Wasatch Call Gary Arndt Division of Human Resource Management Office at for more in- SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources will discuss its plan to chemically treat Strawberry Reservoir at a seminar Tuesday at 7 formation pm The Ogden Nature Center and its chief naturalist Joan Dolph have been honored by the Utah Chapter of the Wildlife Society for educational programs and classes given at the center The DWR plans a massive treatment of the reservoir in August 1988 to kill Utah chub and Utah sucker that arc competing with game fish The DWR esti trol charged the regulations governing the archery deer hunt removing a provision which allowed bowhunters to take a buck djring both the archery and nfic seasons As a result the bowhunt attracted nearly 5500 fewer archers than in 1985 with a corresponding drop in the kill About 21000 archers shot 2274 deer a 109 percent success rate The success rate was the lowest since 1978 when only eight percent of archers took a buck In 1985 26539 hunters killed 4097 bucks 154 percent By contrast 5918 muzzleloader hunters recorded an almost identical harvest of 1193 bucks or 20 percent In 1985 6290 hunters shot 1175 bucks or 19 percent Hunters slog through snow Outdoors briefs DWR announces bucks 25 percent Unit 8 East Canyon — 3191 hunters 1347 bucks 42 percent Unit 9 Davis County — 1233 hunters 396 bucks 32 percent Unit 10 Salt Lake 2854 hunters 803 bucks 28 percent “Everybody feels we have a few more deer on all the units" Grandison said “The Ogden unit hasn’t recovered as fast as some but faster than others Box Elder came back most rapidly and Davis is coming back pretty fast" The Board of Big Game Control authorized 5875 postseason antlcrless permits on 19 units in 1986 Most permits were sold and 5374 hunters shot 4126 deer for a 78 percent success In 1986 the Board of Big Game Con 867 Nature Center honored by the Wildlife Society When the 1986 open hunting season on bull elk rolled around it brought with it a storm front that dumped as much as a foot of snow in the high country Wet muddy roads and difficult hunting reduced the hunter’s chance of success but had only a minimal affect on the number of hunters According to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources annual big game harvest summary 24250 hunters slogged in the mud and snow long enough to kill 3286 bulls The 1986 success rate of 14 percent compares to the 1985 mark of 17 percent “We were almost universally down on the elk 12th Street ‘harvest last year” said Jeff Grandison wildlife bisucker ologist for the DWR “We can only blame it on the weather because our elk herds really look good We wrestled from Willard couldn’t be more encouraged with the herds” WILLARD — A Clearfield anElk herds were only minimally affected by the sestate re- vere winters of so there was gler broke a and 1984-8cord for Utah sucker when he no mass that deer experienced a from the waLocal hunters had fair hunting On the Cache jerked ters of the north marina at Wil- forest 13 percent of the 1605 hunters killed bulls lard Bay Scott McComb caught the big fish March 12 on a green jig The fish measured 23 inches and was 13'2 inches in girth The old reUtah Division of Wildlife Resources surveys cord fish a was show nearly 25000 hunters participated in special taken from the Weber River in “quality” deer hunts in 1986 including January or better limited entry and high country buck hunts Forest Service finds Ten deer units were designated or of wolves no better units and the chance to shoot a trophy aniKEMMERER Wyo (AP) — mal attracted more than 22000 hunters No permit unit but only Despite extensive searches the is required to hunt a National Forest bucks with at least three antler points on one side has failed to show any traces of may be shot Success ranged from a low of 12 percent on the Fillmore unit to 39 percent on the Book wolves in the forest The areas searched during a Cliffs Overall 23 percent of participating hunters or larger buck three-daperiod earlier this bagged a month included Minnie Holden The only or better hunt in Northern and Creek Commissary Ridge Utah is on the Wellsville Mountains along the Fontenelle Creek Thirteen wolf Cache Valley where 1659 hunters shot 370 bucks for 22 percent sitings in the area have been reOther success rates include: ported since 1984 Hole The Forest Serv ice and Bureau 15 percent Fishlake 30 percent Monroe Mounof Land Management made three tain 21 percent Henry Mountains 30 percent Oak helicopter flights to Creek 19 percent Daggett 14 percent Kanosh 21 The center received a Conservation Achievement Award for its programs in natural resource conservation as well as for providing thousands of school children with outdoor experiences Dolph was presented with a certificate of appreciation for developing coordinating and teaching classes emphasizing hands-oexperiences with wildlife and nature The Nature Center is at 966 W ‘Quality’ hunts offer 23 traces search for wolves while on Chalk Creek an estimated 15 percent of 2257 were successful Ogden River area hunters 407 of them killed 57 bulls for 14 percent The DWR estimates that 482 hunters on the Rich unit killed 38 bulls That’s about nine percent Hunter success did not vary widely across the state The most successful hunt in terms of percentages was on Beaver Mountain where 23 percent tagged a bull The most heavily hunted herd was on the Manti Mountain unit where 5762 hunters shot 731 bulls 13 percent The DWR reckoned that 34 percent of the total kill were mature bulls while 66 percent were yearlings The harvest tilted toward yearlings on the more accessible hunting units On the Cache for example 65 percent of the kill were yearlings but on the Ogden River unit only 27 percent were The lack of roads on much of the Ogden yearlings River unit and it's proximity to Deseret Land and Livestock and the large number of mature bulls there are at least partly responsible for the high number of mature animals taken percent success Seven deer units were designated limited entry where a special permit was required of hunters These offered some of the best hunting success in the state with an 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