Outdoor notes

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.