Ranch brings thrill of the hunt to life for enthusiasts
February 6, 2021
You are probably familiar with the large non-flying bird native to Australia called an emu. They can be six feet tall, weigh 80 to 100 pounds or more, and run 30 miles per hour.
Emus are valued for their meat, their oil, their feathers, and their leather. Just think, an emu leg is a meal for the whole family and not just a snack like a chicken leg. Surprisingly, if you are a hunter, you can hunt an Emu and other game on a private ranch just down the road in Elberta. It is amazing what you can find right here in our backyard.
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A once-endangered fish is bouncing back in Utah Lake
By BRIAN MAFFLY January 9, 2021 GMT
In this June 20, 2012, photo Chad Landress, a biologist with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, holds a June sucker in Utah. Twenty years ago, June suckers were well on their way to oblivion due to Utahns’ use of Utah Lake as a place to dump pollution and stock with sport fish and other nonnatives. Today, the suckers are coming back in the wake of costly efforts to clean up the lake’s degraded habitat, rid its water of invasive carp, raise suckers at secure refuges and hatcheries, and restore a major delta that is hoped to once again serve as a safe nursery for young fish. (Paul Fraughton/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
SALT LAKE CITY More than 8.2 million fish were stocked across various lakes, rivers, reservoirs, creeks and ponds in Utah during 2020, according to figures released by state wildlife officials Friday.
In all, they say nearly 1.2 million pounds of fish from 21 different species were stocked across 626 state waterbodies. Most of the fish were raised at state-owned fisheries, but fish were also imported from three other states according to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
Biologists have stocked fish in Utah since 1871, and the state opened its first fish hatchery in 1899; operations have grown dramatically since then. A little over 7 million, or about 85%, of the fish stocked in Utah came from 13 state-run hatcheries.