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Show Where Do The 'Bucks Go? DWR Has The Facts For hunting and other wildlife enthusiasts who may wonder where the "bucks" go, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has an explanation. expla-nation. In distributing wildlife dollars, fisheries management is allocated 24.5 percent of Wildlife Resources funds. It deals with fish hatchery operation, research, new fisheries development, acquisition of conservation conser-vation pools in reservoirs and obtaining ob-taining access to lakes and streams. Game management receives 27.7 percent of the funds. It conducts range inventories and wildlife research, re-search, surveys and analyzes game population trends, relocates and introduces in-troduces game animals and operates waterfowl management areas and game farms. Law enforcement uses 20 percent of Division funds. It ensures public observation of and cooperation with the rules, regulations and statutes in the Wildlife Resources Code of Utah. Administration is responsible to implement division policy established estab-lished by the Board of Big Game Control and the Wildlife Board. It uses 7.8 percent of the funds and is the coordinating leadership for regional re-gional and statewide wildlife programs. pro-grams. Field services receives six percent per-cent of the funds. It oversees engineering, engi-neering, construction and maintenance mainte-nance of division facilities and developments, de-velopments, acquires and improves wildlife habitat. Resources analysis is allocated three percent of the funds and is charged with wildlife habitat protection. It is intensively involved in-volved in land-use planning and environmental en-vironmental assessment processes affecting the wildlife resources of Utah. Nongame management receives three percent of the funds. It is responsible re-sponsible for 87 percent of Utah's wildlife species which are not hunted or fished. It conducts research re-search and surveys on these species. Fiscal accounting uses three percent per-cent of the funds for managing the income and expenditures of the accounts ac-counts receivable and accounts payable and coordinates the wildlife license and permit system including distribution. Information and education re ceives five percent of the funds. It communicates wildlife management and information to the public through the news media, publications publica-tions and environmental and hunter education programs. Wildlife dollars are received from a variety of sources. Licenses and permits provide 71 percent of the income of the Division Divi-sion of Wildlife Resources. License fees are set by the Legislature and permit fees by the Wildlife Board or the Board of Big Game Control. All license and permit revenue is deposited de-posited into the Restricted Wildlife Resources Account. None of this money may be used for nonwildlife purposes. Federal aid provides 17 percent of Division funds. Federal law specifies speci-fies that this money may not be used outside of the Division for nonwildlife purposes. It is credited to Wildlife Resources in the general fund and is used only for wildlife programs. Federal aid comes from an excise tax paid by sportsmen who buy sporting equipment. The money is apportioned back to each state by the Federal Government for special projects. The state must match one dollar for every three dollars of Federal aid. The Utah general fund contributes contrib-utes eight percent of the Division's revenue (16 percent in 1978). This is state tax money appropriated to the Division by the Legislature to help fund wildlife management programs that benefit Utah citizens as a whole, whether or not they hunt or fish. General fund monies usually remain intact for wildlife program use. Other sources comprise four percent per-cent of the total income. These are from nongame tax checkoff contributions, contri-butions, donations, income from livestock grazing leases on state lands administered by the DWR wildlife violation fines, sale of equipment confiscated from law violators, vi-olators, auction of game carcasses (from confiscations or damage control), con-trol), and other miscellaneous sources. These funds are deposited in the Restricted Wildlife Resources Account and are used for wildlife programs. The DWR projects an income of approximately $15 million from July 1988 through June 1989 P""1" """" 1 ' PH'HV'YTT Mill H ,m IJI'I1M.'JUUU1JJI J1IUH IHUUIWU. UmUUUIUMUJi jiiiWungCTWiillJiBtilliiMiM Nice Catch! i I -; ' - 4 i'v' . ' - ' i . " ' " ' - ' :' - :' . . " ' ,-V -v- " . . . I '' -C y s ' w r nb - -v thi ' ' :ic 'k - bet - lac a. . 1 .hi This Natural Bridge was discovered in 1984 on east side of Scenic Highway 12 in the northeast portion of Bryce Canyon National Park. The bridge is visible fr.r kr; between Junction of Hig : on rwi . Co Tropic. re PC |