• Change the Plateau, Fishlake-Thousand Lake buck deer unit from a limited entry unit to a general season unit.

"This small unit rarely meets the minimum objective of 25 bucks per 100 does that each of Utah's limited entry deer units is supposed to meet," Aoude said. "The unit is surrounded by private land, and deer move in and out of the unit a lot. General season hunters on the private land surrounding the unit take a lot of deer as they move to and from the unit."

• Create a new general any bull elk unit in southeastern Utah. The unit would be on the east side of U.S.-191, just east of the San Juan limited entry bull elk unit.

"The elk in this area could cause hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to sunflowers that are being raised for biofuel," Aoude said. "We're hoping general season elk hunters can help reduce these losses by taking some of the elk."

For more information about the meetings, call the nearest DWR office or the DWR's Salt Lake City office at 801-538-4700.

Deer Hunting season lengths

Year ... Season ... length* ... Deer taken**

1999 ... 5 days ... 3.2 ... 470
... 9 days ... 3.9 ... 321

2000 ... 5 days ... 3.3 ... 480
... 9 days ... 3.8 ... 326

2001 ... 5 days ... 2.9 ... 330
... 9 days ... 3.6 ... 275

2002 ... 5 days ... 3.2 ... 317
... 9 days ... 4.0 ... 237

2003 ... 5 days ... 3.0 ... 224
... 9 days ... 3.7 ... 241

2004 ... 5 days ... 2.8 ... 367
... 9 days ... 3.5 ... ... 329

2005 ... 5 days ... 3.1 ... 282
... 9 days ... 3.5 ... 229

2006 ... 5 days ... 3.0 ... 441
... 9 days ... 3.5 ... 324

*Average days hunted
** per 1,000 hunters