Utah Big Game Application Period Moved

SureShot

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FYI

"Getting a hunting application just after the start of the year isn't something Utah's big game hunters will be doing in 2006.

"The Utah Wildlife Board has moved the state's big game application period back two weeks. The application period begins Jan. 17, 2006 and ends Feb. 16.

"Board members voted to move the application period back at their Nov. 22 meeting in Salt Lake City. All of the big game hunting rules approved by the board for 2006 will be available in the 2006 Utah Big Game Proclamation. The proclamation should be available during the first week in January....

"The following are two major items the board did NOT approve:

"- A recommendation to lengthen the general rifle buck deer hunt in the Southern and Southeastern regions from five to nine days. Board members voted against this DWR proposal after citizen representatives from the Southern and Southeastern regional advisory councils voted against it.

"- A recommendation to eliminate Utah's statewide general archery buck deer hunt and have archery hunters hunt in specific regions. Citizen representatives from the Southern and Southeastern RACs brought this proposal to the board. The Northern, Central and Northeastern RACs voted against the proposal, and the board also voted against it."

Click here for the full article:

http://wildlife.utah.gov/news/05-11/biggame.php
 
I followed the link SureShot, but where is the part where the board approved ktc for a LE elk tag?

I also missed the part where only 2 general season buck tags would be issued to increase the herd, ktc's and someone else's.

I guess the board did not take my proposed changes seriously enough. Oh well, there "is always next year."
 
I actually attended the board meeting and they discussed your proposals in great detail.

They put some PR spin on it in the press release, but I think that's the real reason the dates got moved back. I can't remember all of it, but something about needing extra time to do a criminal background check on you and freeze all of your assets. (Apparently the $1.5 million "donation" you offered in exchange for your proposals being accepted didn't go over very well).

My advice to you would be to keep a close eye on your rearview mirror for black SUVs and helicopters hovering over your house.
 
What was the reasoning not to get rid of the state wide archery, this is hurting the southern and southeastern units, I think they should have appoved this one, I am glad that they did not approve the extended rifle hunt.
 
LAST EDITED ON Nov-26-05 AT 09:58PM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON Nov-26-05 AT 09:57?PM (MST)

So what else was approved or disapproved? Any changes worth talking about?

Here's something from the press release,

"We have a plan that will guide the management of deer through 2008 and a plan that will guide the management of elk through 2010," said Craig McLaughlin, big game coordinator for the DWR. "We want to stick with those plans and see where they get us."

Well, I can tell you where our deer mismanagement plan is going to get us-3 MORE YEARS BEHIND COLORADO!!!!
 

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