Outdoor notes

YOUTH DEER HUNT PERMITS

Youths who will 18 or younger on Aug. 21 this year can still purchase a permit to hunt buck deer in Utah this fall. Beginning today, a total of 1,500 general statewide archery buck deer permits are on sale.

Permits may be purchased at the Division of Wildlife Resources website (www.wildlife.utah.gov), at any DWR office and from more than 300 hunting license agents across Utah. The youth hunting permits are not part of the state's current cap of 95,000 general deer permits. They're extra permits the Utah Wildlife Board added to give young hunters a better chance to hunt this fall.

Anis Aoude, big game coordinator for the DWR, said more than 15,000 young hunters applied for a general deer hunting permit this year, but more than 2,000 of those hunters didn't draw one. Adding 1,500 archery permits should give most of these young hunters a chance to hunt. Because success during the archery hunt is low, biologists feel putting 1,500 extra young hunters in the field will not have a negative effect on the state's deer herds.

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

BIG GAME NOTIFICATION

If you're one of the more than 27,000 hunters who applied for an antlerless big game hunting permit for this fall, and you supplied the Division of Wildlife Resources with an e-mail address, then watch your e-mail closely next Wednesday.

That's the day you'll receive an e-mail letting you know if you drew a permit. If you didn't supply an e-mail address, you can learn the results by calling 1-800-221-0659 or visiting www.wildlife.utah.gov. This will be the first time the DWR hasn't mailed letters to applicants.

Judi Tutorow, wildlife licensing coordinator for the DWR, said most of the 27,000 applicants supplied the agency with an e-mail address.

"If you don't have access to the Internet, you can still get your results fast by calling the 1-800 number starting July 14," she said. "The phone line is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week."

For more information, call the Utah Hunt Application office at 1-800-221-0659, or call the nearest DWR office or the DWR's Salt Lake City office at 801-538-4700.

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