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Bear raises both cubs

Wildlife biologists found an encouraging sight when they visited a bear den near Vernal: Two bear yearlings, which were just cubs one year before, that were alive and doing well.

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Watch the sage-grouse strut

The Division of Wildlife Resources and the Wild Bird Center of Layton will sponsor a free field trip on March 27 to a historic sage-grouse breeding ground. You'll have to get up early if you'd like to participate, but, if you do, you'll see something few people have seen in nature.

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View strutting sage-grouse, April 10

Samples from big game animals taken this past hunting season turned up something never seen in Utah before—an elk with chronic wasting disease.

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See Gunnison sage-grouse

During the weekends of April 2–3 and April 16–17, state wildlife biologists will take small groups of people to see Gunnison sage-grouse strut on leks (breeding grounds) west of Monticello.

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Shed antler gathering on the Henrys

Before your next trip to the Henry Mountains to collect shed antlers, please call or visit the Bureau of Land Management offices in Hanksville or Richfield. To protect the deer, the BLM has enacted a new travel plan. The plan requires motorized vehicles to stay on designated routes.

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Elk tests positive for CWD

Samples from big game animals taken this past hunting season turned up something never seen in Utah before—an elk with chronic wasting disease.

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2010 big game permit proposals

With one exception—cow bison permits for the Henry Mountains—the number of hunting permits could go up this fall for most of Utah's big game animals.

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Proposed elk hunting changes

Utah's 15-member Elk Advisory Committee helped the DWR draft the updated five-year Elk Management Plan. If the plan passes, two major elk hunting changes would happen.

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Board rejects venomous snake change

At their March 4 meeting in Salt Lake City, members of the Utah Wildlife Board voted against a proposal that would have allowed people to collect and keep Great Basin rattlesnakes.

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Big game app deadline extended

The DWR will accept big game drawing applications for an extra week. You now have until 11 p.m. MST on March 8, 2010 to submit your application.

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Volunteer at the GSL Nature Center

The Great Salt Lake Nature Center is looking for volunteer naturalists. If you would like to learn more about the birds, plants and wetlands around the Great Salt Lake, and then share what you learn with school kids, then the Great Salt Lake Nature Center wants you.

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