10K IN CENTRAL UTAH
The Skyline 10K race/Mountain Walk will be held Saturday, Aug. 1, beginning at 9 a.m.
The course begins on Highway 31 at the top of Fairview Canyon, located in Sanpete County in central Utah. Discounted entry fees are available for early registration. Cash prizes will be awarded to winners.
The race is sponsored by the Sanpete Valley Health Care Foundation. Proceeds from this race will go toward the purchase of needed health-care equipment for the Sanpete Valley Hospital, located in Mt. Pleasant.
For more race details or to register online, go to skyline10k.com or contact Mark Beck at 435-462-2698.
UPLAND GAME GUIDEBOOK
Utah's Upland Game Guidebook for the 2009-10 hunting season is now available at sporting goods stores and at the Division of Wildlife Resources' Web site (www.wildlife.utah.gov/guidebooks).
The guidebook can also be picked up at your nearest DWR office.
"Utah's upland game hunts begin with the ptarmigan season on Aug. 22," said Dean Mitchell, Conservation Outreach Section chief for the DWR. "The upland game season doesn't end until the cottontail rabbit and snowshoe hare hunts end on Feb. 28. That's six full months of hunting."
"Utah has a wide variety of upland game species. If you want, you can hunt white-tailed ptarmigan high in the Uinta Mountains one day and chukar partridge on the rocky slopes of the western desert the next.
"The Utah Legislature has removed the minimum age at which a young person can hunt small game in Utah," Mitchell said. "If you're a parent, we encourage you to take your kids hunting this year. But kids must still pass our hunter education course before they can hunt, so make sure you register them early for the four-week class. Once they pass the course, they'll receive a free hunting license."
A list of hunter education courses is available at www.wildlife.utah.gov/huntereducation.
TURKEY HUNTS
Anyone who wants to hunt wild turkeys next spring in Utah could do so if ideas that the Division of Wildlife Resources is proposing for Utah's 2010 hunts are approved.
And hunters would have more places to hunt turkeys than ever before.
"Even though we'd be putting more hunters in the field, we don't think that would have a negative effect on Utah's turkey populations," said Dave Olsen, upland game coordinator for the DWR. "Each hunter in Utah is restricted to taking only one male turkey. And female turkeys in the state are very successful at reproducing."
You can review all of the DWR's turkey hunting proposals at www.wildlife.utah.gov/public_meetings/next.php. Once you've read the proposals, you can share your thoughts and ideas via e-mail (www.wildlife.utah.gov/public_meetings) or by attending one of five Regional Advisory Council meetings, which will be held across Utah during the coming two weeks. Citizens representing the RACs will take the input received at the meetings to the Utah Wildlife Board. Board members will use the input to help them set rules for Utah's 2010 turkey hunts. They'll set those rules at their Aug. 19-20 meeting in Salt Lake City.
RAC meetings are scheduled as follows:
Southern Region — July 28, 7 p.m., Triple C Arena, 50 E. 900 North, Panguitch.
Southeastern Region — July 29, 6:30 p.m., John Wesley Powell Museum, 1765 E. Main Street, Green River.
Northeastern Region — July 30, 6:30 p.m., Western Park, Room No. 1, 302 E. 200 South, Vernal.
Central Region — Aug. 4, 6:30 p.m., Central Region Conference Center, 1115 N. Main Street, Springville.
Northern Region — Aug. 5, 6 p.m., Brigham City Community Center, 24 N. 300 West, Brigham City.
For more information about the meetings, call the nearest Division of Wildlife Resources office or the DWR's Salt Lake City office at 801-538-4700.