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Show Tropic Man Draws For Bighorn Sheep TROPIC Dean Wintch was one of many anxious applicants ' who waited in anticipation of being : successful in the drawings for a once-in-a-lifetime permit to hunt moose, buffalo, sheep or Rocky Mountain goat. Wintch was the only Garfield County resident to draw out, and his permit is to hunt desert bighorn sheep in the Escalante Es-calante River area. The drawings were held March 18 at the Division of Wildlife Resources Re-sources office in Salt Lake City. The division received more than 4,500 applications. Successful applicants ap-plicants have been notified by mail. Unsuccessful applicants will get a refund from the Department of Finance Fi-nance within four to six weeks after the drawings. No resident permits were under-subscribed. under-subscribed. The undersubscribed permits are: two nonresident permits per-mits for antlerless moose, Hunt 551 (Morgan-South Rich area), and two nonresident permits for buffalo (cow), Hunt 620 (Henry Mountains). These four permits will be sold on a first-come, first-served first-served basis by mail-in application only beginning March 21. The cost is $1,002 for each nonresident permit. per-mit. A Utah big game license ($120) is required to apply. Applications Appli-cations should be mailed to: Under-subscribed Under-subscribed Permits, P.O. Box 16500, Salt Lake City UT 84116. In the sealed bid category, a bid of $7,100 and $6,555 were submitted submit-ted for a moose permit. A bid of $3,107 was submitted for a hunter's choice buffalo permit. There is one permit available for desert bighorn sheep at a minimum bid of $20,000. Money from the bids goes toward big game transplant programs. The odds of drawing these permits per-mits are somewhat tough tougher than the blackjack tables at Vegas. The bull moose permits odds ranged from about one in ten to one in forty-five; the buffalo odds ran no better with approximately one in thirty-five applicants being successful, and the desert bighorn permit applicants had about a one in thirty chance of drawing. But the mountain goat odds were the toughest, with the chance of being successful at the drawing being approximately ap-proximately one in a hundred. All in all, chances were limited. but like the elk permits which used to be on a drawing basis, as the goat, sheep, moose and buffalo populations increase more opportunities opportu-nities will arise. |