From Deseret News archives:
Expect more ducks and elk in '07 hunts
What hunters can expect are:
• More ducks. Heavy rains to the north, in Canada, provided ideal nesting conditions, thus a higher number of ducks were hatched and survived.
• More elk. Utah's elk population continues to grow. Relatively mild winters the past four years, along with good flood supplies, has moved the population closer to statewide goals.
• DUCK While Utah's spring and summer was dry, reports from key breeding areas in Canada showed that the number of breeding ponds was 68 percent higher than the 50-year average.
The hunt will open at 8 a.m. on Saturday in Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Salt Lake and Weber counties, and 30 minutes before sunrise elsewhere.
The limit is seven ducks, but a hunter can have no more than two hen mallards, two red heads, two canvasbacks, one pintail or three scaups.
The season will close Jan. 19.
The conditions hunters will find at the state's waterfowl management areas will vary depending on where they hunt. At the areas where the DWR has good water rights, water conditions should be good within the diked units.
At the areas where the DWR's water rights aren't as good, conditions will be drier.
"Farmington Bay and Ogden Bay should have the best water conditions," said Tom Aldrich, migratory game bird coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources. "Other WMAs that rely mostly on spring water, such as the Public Shooting Grounds and Salt Creek, will be drier. At Locomotive Springs, only one unit has water in it."
Conditions are also dry at the Clear Lake WMA northwest of Fillmore. Only the main units at the WMA will have water when the season opens.
Aldrich said the situation with Canada geese is similar to the duck situation. The number of breeding pairs in Utah, and the number of young they produced, were up slightly from 2006. But both numbers in
Utah were down slightly from their 50-year average.
The goose season will run from Oct. 6 to 18, then break for a week and run from Oct. 27 to Jan. 27.
The swan season, for those with swan permits, will run from Oct. 6 to Dec. 9.
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