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Show General Elk Permits Will Be Available To Public July 10 SALT LAKE CITY - Beginning July 10, there will be a number of ways to purchase Utah general season sea-son elk permits for this fall's hunt. Purchasing them on the Internet is probably the easiest. Hunters who have a MasterCard or Visa credit card may buy a permit by visiting the Division of Wildlife Resources' Internet web site at www.nr.state.ut.usdwrdwr.htm. Once on the site, hunters may click on the trout icon in the upper right hand corner of the home page. This provides access to all of the licenses the Division sells on the Internet, including general elk permits, per-mits, which will be available beginning be-ginning at 8 a.m., July 10. Hunters may choose an any bull, spike bull, general archery elk or general muzzleloader spike elk permit, and must provide the needed information. They may then print a receipt on their printer. Their permit should arrive in the mail within 14 days. Hunters may also mail a permit request form to any of the Division offices listed on the form. Permit request forms will be available the week of July 3, from hunting and fishing license agents statewide, Division offices and hunter education educa-tion centers and the Division's Internet In-ternet web site. Beginning July 10, permits also will be available from 237 hunting license agents statewide, and Division Divi-sion offices. License agents will begin selling permits at 7:30 a.m. Division offices will open at 8 a.m. July 10 is the first day general buck deer permits not taken in this year's draw will go on sale, and the Division is anticipating long lines at its offices. "To avoid possibly having to stand in a long line, I'd encourage elk hunters to visit a license agent that day, or buy their permit over the Internet or through the mail," said Judi Tutorow, wildlife licensing licens-ing coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources. Elk hunters who can't buy a permit July 10 shouldn't have any problem obtaining one later, as general elk permits usually remain available for several weeks. For more information, call the nearest Division office, or the Division's Divi-sion's Salt Lake City office at 801-538-4700. |