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Show The Uintah Basin Standard ...continued from last page calf crop, which was estimated to push the herd to 6.600 6.800 animals. Remember our mapc number of 3.900? By law. Wkfife Resources has to manage for that nwnber. whether they wart to or not hence the shocking number of anterfess tags was proposed. (Imagine the number of tags that would have been proposed if the tnbe hadn't removed the f.300 years animals At they trapped.) the regional meeting, several schools of thouit were voiced, some more reasonable than others. A couple ranchers asserted all those extra elk tags should be issued because thats what the numbers said and we had to do what the numbers sad without applying consoous thought or common sense. Wkffife Resources officers, when asked, openly expressed that the only reason 5.000 permits Uintah Basin's RECREATION GUIDE (based on a somewhat arbitrary success rate of were was mandate their to proposed, keep the herd at 3,900 arvmals. They said there was no range 60) damage due to the 'extra arvmals and the range could easily support the current numbers. Several sportsmen got into the linger shaking mode . about the dxe consequences of such a foolhardy action as issuing 5.000 permits and the cata- strophic results it would have. Several ranchers said they hxtft seen any elk on their places this year and they thought the numbers could and should wrease. Several ranchers, who can be heavfyimpaaed by wintering eft. voced their valid concerns. In the end. reason and common sense held sway and a muto-yea- r reduction plan was adopted that would provide opportunities to adjust and control herd numbers without Summer 1999 9 17 setting the stage for irreversible damage through anmediate. excessive over harvesting, with 2.000 permits to be issued this year. Elk Ranching The other recent centered wth around the proposal to legalize ek ranching. Those who favored the legalization figured there was money to be made in two drecbons. The Asan crowd evidently fgures there s an efc aphrodsacal power n anter - a Mother Nature's Viagra, you wJ. Angers are tnmmed from the e& wNfe sfcl in the velvet and sold by the pcxnd. (I want to know what prompted some guy you know it had to be a guy to gnnd ip an e& artier and mx t m his tea to begin with. That one escapes me.) The ether market the whoop-dee-do- o ford i - - meat market, approached from is the base two directions. One raise market meat to supply an ever expancfcng market for lean, red meat (Two mdfion pounds of red deer meat are currently being xnported n the U.S. from New t ranchers veaejorgoffonjntes tor qm.'yhuvrfexpenences tfroout fie t Recent chtnges rt liah i few bring those same to theSasn econonKtndreareaoomfopportintes Zealand to supply the demand.) The other venue the hunter. Whether you Ike it or not the American penchant for fagger and better cars, houses and bank acocxaits has nvaded the Nrtmg fields. Hinting magazines unrefenti'gy feature story after story centered arcxnd bg antlers. A hunter can get the impression that Ns base can be quesgenetic make-utioned he doesn't knock Nmsejf out to bag sometnmg with a p i huge rack. Snce there arent a tot of arvma's wth g racks. tins market driven socety. bg racks can amost msarty be transaied rto bucks, as n the cfoflar kmd. It isn't irusuaf for a Niter wtn a bg enough bankrofl to spend thousands n purwt of a bg txJ on pubic t tg ground w?i no gjarar.ee of success. Contrast that with a hunt for cortnued on next page IIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIII!IIIHIIIIIIIIllllllillllllllllHlllllllllllllllll!lllillll!!IIIHIIIHiii Frontier Motel AIvm toe (he&sn. They vkerays pvt cf the h&otycf the peevghpht attest JhebJtxvshNmeewihessiotheiiiixycfthote destroy hstory tor no reason. HOMES Grill Two Great Places To awta? GriV6NLO'fotgBnce0tafr(cf HPPM & Eat And SUPER Sleep CENTER SUPER SAVINGS ON ALL THEIR LOT MODEL HOMES Compare The Quality OfA Schult Or Dutch Home Over The Competitors 1080 E. Hwy. 40, Vernal, UT 84078 Across From The Crock'd Pot Here And Home Mote! - 722-22- 01 Grill - 722-36- luiiiuiiuiuiuiiuiutuiiiiiiuiiiaiuiiiuiuuiiiiiuiiuuuiiui 69 llllllllllllllllllilllililiill .. |