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Thursday, November 07, 2002
The Utah Upland Game Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes, Oct. 7, 2002 Opening A meeting of the Utah Upland Game Advisory Committee was held on this date. Present
Old business Chukar Management Plan Walk-in access The walk-in access plan has been on hold for the last couple of months, but it is back on track now. Hopefully, the final recommendation will be presented to the division hierarchy within the next month. The goal is to have this program in place for the 2003 hunting season. Dean is concerned about how the funding for the program will be resolved and asked if we felt that it would be acceptable to divert habitat funds towards a pilot program for walk-in access. The committee felt that we would need to have a better idea of what type of trade-offs would be involved. This is a potential topic for the next meeting. Youth pheasant hunts All of the youth pheasant hunts are full, except for the Huntington WMA which has 39 openings and the Pahvant WMA which has 8 openings. If you know of a youth who would like to participate in these hunts, please have them fax their application to Arlo Wing at (801) 538-4709. The committee reaffirmed their belief that getting the word out about these hunts in Hunter's Ed is vital to filling them. Upland game winter feeding program The proposal for this program will go before the RACs starting on December 2nd. The committee provided some feedback on the wording of the proposal, but was satisfied with the content. Sagebrush steppe habitat projects John Staley and Ernie Perkins met with the Northern Region habitat people and presented 3 ideas for "landscape" scale habitat projects. During the course of the meeting, 2 more ideas were proposed. Another meeting will be scheduled to determine the level of interest in these projects and determine how to proceed. New business Topo maps on the Internet Ernie Perkins pointed out an Internet site, www.topozone.com, which allows you to print out topo maps for the entire United States with scales from 1:24,000 to 1:100,000. Upland game survey A brainstorming session about questions to include on the forthcoming upland game survey was held. A wide variety of topics were covered, and Dean is going to forward the list to the person who is actually creating the survey. Upland Game on the Internet You can get more information about upland game in Utah at www.wildlife.utah.gov/uplandgame/; including the past minutes for this committee, news, proclamations, and information about upcoming public meetings. Agenda for next meeting Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 13th at 6:00 P.M. at the DWR State offices at 1594 West North Temple, Salt Lake City. The meeting will examine discuss stocking pheasants on WMAs. Here are some links with background materials from other state's programs:
Everyone is invited to attend this meeting; it's an opportunity for you to get any issues you know about onto the table. Let us know of donations, projects, etc., made by your group we want to publicize good activities! If you know of other interested parties who should get copies of the minutes, and who are involved in upland game organizations or programs, please get us their name. If you want to make an electronic mail input, please send it to one of the following:
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