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Show Black bear pursuit and hunting focus of meetings Limiting opportunities to pursue bears with hounds in Utah in the fall will be among pursuing bears and hunters hunting big and small game, THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday. November 27, 2002 - Page 9 wide. Do we need to start lim- iting bear pursuit through seaSecson adjustments, or going to a said Alan Clark, wildlife items the public may provide tion Chief for the Division of limited entry bear pursuit sysWe need the publics help input on at upcoming Regional Wildlife Resources. Wed like tem? to answer to have a general discussion that question. Advisory Council meetings. isPublic about with conflicts in this the been There have public input also will be the fall between houndsmen sue on hunting units state sought about a recommendation to offer a total of 209 public black bear hunting permits for Utahs 2003 seasons. That would be a slight decrease from the 217 permits offered in 2002. In addition, the DWR will inancmqljpJo60Months recommend that black bear hunting not be allowed on the Cache unit in northern Utah. The unit would remain open for bear pursuit, however. There are a limited number of bears in the Cache unit and very few bearhuman conflicts, so we dont believe a hunt is justified there, Clark said. At the meetings the public will hear presentations about the proposals and may ask isggnQi questions and provide their input and suggestions. RAC $1 000IBonUsjCashjFi!us!lnterest citizen representatives will RatesTAvailablejOnlSelectNew7BUicK take the public input received ChevroletLOIdsm'obileI& to the Utah Wildlife Board RontiaclMddels when it meets December 17 in Salt Lake City to approve Utahs 2003 Black Bear Proc2002 Buick lamation. Lesabre Custom A meeting is December 3 at MSRP $27,269 Rebate $3,000 6:30 p.m. at the John Wesley Keetch Discount $2,096 Powell Museum at 885 E. Main St., Green River. For more information about the meetings call the nearest Di-- U w mmsB mm PAYMENT, m PAYMENTS!; 2002 hunter success and the future of wild turkeys in Utah planting of birds within Utah Grande wild turkeys in Utah and bringing in as many wild in 2002, for a success rate of turkeys as possible - mostly Rio Grandes - from 55 percent. Thats a fantastic success rate and we're reMitchell says Utahns ally excited about it, says Dean Mitchell, upland game shouldnt expect to see the coordinator for the Division of states Merriams turkey popu- Hunters took 482 Rio out-of-stat- e. lation grow much more. Most of the suitable ponderosa pine, mixed with aspen and oak habitat that the birds prefer in Utah, already has Merriams turkeys. percent. The skys the limit, though, Mitchell says most of Utahs wild turkey populations are when it comes to the number of Rio Grande turkeys Utah flourishing because of aggressive efforts by the Division of can support. Rio Grandes preWildlife Resources to bring fer riparian habitats consisting of cottonwood river turkeys to Utah from that are usually adjacent to trap and transplant turkeys within the state, and to agricultural areas, and Utah has plenty of these. to improve turkey habitat. Conservation groups have Applications to hunt wild pitched in, too, with groups turkeys in Utah next spring such as the national wild Tur- will be available by December key Federation and the Utah-base- d 3. Applications will be availSportsmen for Fish and able from hunting license Wildlife providing much of the agents statewide, Division of funding for the DWRs wild Wildlife Resources offices and the DWRs Internet Web site turkey efforts. In the past 12 months 871 (www.wildlife.utah.gov). For more information call turkeys have been moved nearest Division of Wildthe within Utah, to supplement existing turkey populations life Resources office, or the Divisions Salt Lake City office and start new ones, while anat (801) other 484 Rio Grande wild turkeys were brought in from Kansas and South Dakota. vision of Wildlife Resources ofWild turkey plans for the or the Divisions Salt Lake next 12 months include the fice, office at (801) continued trapping and trans City Wildlife Resources. 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