Outdoor notes

SAND HOLLOW MEETING

Utah State Parks and Recreation is developing a resource management plan for Sand Hollow State Park located near Hurricane.

A planning meeting is scheduled Wednesday, March 4, at 7 p.m. at the Hurricane City Office Building at 147 N. 870 West. Community members, park visitors and other interested parties are welcome and encouraged to attend.

The RMP will identify issues relating to public use, resource management and future development at the park. It is important for park visitors and other concerned citizens to assist with development of the plan.

For additional information, contact Rock Smith at 801-538-7207.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, anyone needing special accommodations (including auxiliary communicative aids and services) should contact Wendy Griffith at 801-538-7362 at least five working days before the meeting.

GATHERING ANTLERS

If you enjoy gathering antlers that deer, elk and moose shed during the winter, one of your favorite times of the year is almost here.

Those wishing to gather shed antlers before April 15 must complete a free shed-antler gathering course available at www.wildlife.utah.gov/shedantler and print a course completion certificate. No course is required for shed-antler gathering after April 15.

"Make sure you carry your certificate with you," said Mike Fowlks, Law Enforcement Section chief for the Division of Wildlife Resources. "By law, you must have your certificate with you while you're gathering shed antlers."

If you have young children and you've completed the course, your children don't need to complete the course.

Those with a certificate can gather antlers throughout Utah, Fowlks said, including northern Utah, where shed-antler gathering has been closed for much of the winter and spring the past few years.

For more information about the new shed-antler gathering rules, call the nearest Division of Wildlife Resources office or the DWR's Salt Lake City office at 801-538-4700.

BULL SHOT, LEFT TO ROT

BOOK CLIFFS — A five-point bull elk was shot, hidden and left to rot in the Book Cliffs in east central Utah recently.

Now wildlife officers are looking for help to solve the case.

"On Feb. 1, I responded to a call from our poaching hotline," said Clint Sampson, a Utah Division of Wildlife Resources conservation officer. "The caller said they (were in the Book Cliffs and) noticed a flock of crows and a bald eagle feeding on something. When they got closer, they discovered the birds were eating an elk carcass buried under a pile of old tree limbs."

That's when the caller called Utah's Turn in a Poacher hotline at 1-800-662-DEER (3337).