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Show 16 Uintah Basin's RECREATION GUIDG The Uintah Basin Standard ELK continued from page I had also assisted in reducing the number of predators, but fur prices started on a downward spiral and the price of furs no longer warranted the hard work and long hours required to trap. Predator numbers increased. Then, at the behest of the mountain lions were celestial ized status. given It has been postulated that a mature lion win kill a deer a week. Nobod seems to argue with the figure. It has also been postulated that the lions only cu the weak, least appetizing of the deer. I have to chuckle at that one. Mien you open the fridge, do you look for the food that is ready to be thrown out the stuff nobody else wanted to eat. or do you tend to focus on what looks the tastiest? The thought of a hunpy hon sitting on a rode watching healthy deer walk by unmolested as he or she contemplates its roll in nature as a proner of the health and gene deficient members of the herd, is more than my simple mind can comprehend. Anyway, predator numbers are up and they have to eat The deer herd is dedining. Hello? Sony for the detour. What do dedinmg deer numbers have to do with elk? The tribe wanted to rebuild their deer herd in the area from Uintah Canyon to Yellowstone and felt that elk numbers were hindering that so they initiated the now infamous trapping program. And the stuff hit the fan. Non-tnbmembers felt the tribe was stealing their elk. The state mostly sat on its hands. And the rumors dew. It wasn't the tribe's intention al to wipe out wildlife n the Basin. They wanted to stabilize the herd numbers on trust land at 3,200 animals. Some of the elk were traded for other species that were introduced to the reservation and will eventuaBy move off tribal grounds as numbers increase. It was a Summer 1999 reasonable project reasonably the need for open communication between entities on projects that affect everyone has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt Will deer numbers increase? Let's disliked by some. Hopefully, wait a few years and see. Will more ek move bade into the area? Are there any left? The Great Permit Debate That brings us to our amteriess permit stink that was recently raised as numbers were set for the fall season. Eadi big game unit in the state has herd objective numbers that have been established by regional boards. The Department of Wildlife Resources is charged by statute to manage herds to meet those objectives. The herd objective in the area with the proposed plethora of anterfess permits was established at 3,900 animals. These figures were arrived at by actual body flt mJedeer. antebpe nd moose grace wdtfnevabw mortar tni 9ryofteUinahBisnHorbfattxcultiralckvesfy counts taken by fixed wing aircrafL (I don't know why we cant say airplanes, sawe that is aircraft is, but what a for some reason, when a wiklfe fixed-win- g coat is involved, you have to use the term "fixed-win- g aircraft ) You can imagine the dffiofty espenenced in trying to cout a herd of ek in the trees as you Dy arouid them in a pla--l aircraft And mean, a fixed-win- g there is no real incentive for the pilot of the fixed wng aacraft to SERVICES Check Cashing Gift Certificates Money Orders Western Union Phone Cards Ticket Outlet Wood Permits Xmas Tree Permits Video Rentals Roosevelt Store 750E. 200N. Roosevelt, Ut 84066 435-722-22- 96 Vernal Store 575 E. Main Vernal, Ut 84078 435-789-20- 01 Were Home Town Proud! P.O. Box 151, Roosevelt, UT 84066 email: shawnmonsterbulls.com (435) ELK RANCHING ENDLESS OPPORTUNITIES Monster Breed Bulls FOR SALE 722-22- 25 every year. Last year, the court was made with a Carpet Cleaners - bury the plane in a hillside. Hence, while exact numbers weren't obtained, population trends could be detected with far accuracy, since the data was collected by the same method aircraft rotary-winge- Rotary-winge- d d aircraft provide more accurate counts because they fly and can mane ver bke helicopters. When the count from Moseby to the North Fork cf the Duchesne was completed the figure stood at 5.780 animals, not inducing this continued on next page... |