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KNEU 1250The Flaming Gorge Ranger District of the Ashley National Forest have announced that they have opened a few gates into the Uintas. Forest Road 093 – Death Valley, Forest Road 218 – Sheep Creek Geological Loop, and Forest Road 221 for access into Browne Lake are now open.
There’s some great turkey hunting in northeastern Utah and the Division of Wildlife Resources has the scoop as hunts are about to open. The youth turkey hunt runs from April 29th to May 1st and the spring general-season turkey hunt runs from May 2nd to the 31st.
The Utah Republican Convention was held Saturday afternoon in Sandy determining who will face off in the June primary election and who will go straight to represent the Republican Party on the November ballot. Senator Mike Lee won an overwhelming 70 percent of the vote but will still face Becky Edwards and Ally Isom in the June primary election because all three gathered signatures.
Local firefighters are headed out of state as wildfire season is getting an early start in New Mexico. The Uintah Fire District and the Lapoint/Tridell Department accepted the fire assignment to the Cerro Pelado Fire located 34 miles west/northwest of Sante Fe.
Spring means construction season and the Utah Department of Transportation is wasting no time in getting started, including work on Highway 40 in the Gusher area. The resurfacing project resumed this month near milepost 125 at approximately 11285 East Randlett and SR 88.
The Office of Outdoor Recreation, part of the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity, recently completed a project near Flaming Gorge. The Little Hole Trail had a unique problem as river release flows submerged the wood boardwalk causing it to become dilapidated and unsafe.
Wildlife officials are considering what waterbodies to stock fish in this year and the drought conditions are changing their usual approach.
A second annual fundraising golf tournament will be held this summer in the founder’s hometown of Riverton Wyoming but will still benefit some Uintah Basin locals. The non-profit organization, Dreams in Motion, honor transplant recipients. The Dreams in Motion organization is the creation of transplant survivor Bruce Tippets and co-founder Joel Brown.
The suspect in a fatal shooting over the weekend in Colorado’s Garfield County is at-large and considered armed and dangerous, as of early Monday morning.
Theft and burglary have been ongoing problems in the Basin and the Duchesne County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s help as they investigate the crimes.
The Duchesne County School District school board and administrative team has announced new hires to fill multiple open administrative positions in the District.
At the most recent Vernal Chamber luncheon, Travis Anderson gave a presentation about the Jones National Fish Hatchery. The Hatchery was founded in 1968 to provide management and production of trout for mitigation of Colorado River Storage Project waters of the Upper Colorado River System and to meet Tribal trust responsibilities on Native American land.