UARC News and Events >> 27 November 05

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Hi Everyone,

Here is some news of the goings on in the Utah Animal Rights Coalition. In This E-Mail:

  * Calendar of Events
  * In the News

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Thanks to those who came out to Fur Free Friday at the Gateway!  It was a great success.


### CALENDAR OF EVENTS ###

Monday, 28th (tomorrow)
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- 7:00 PM - UARC Steering meeting at The Bridge (512 W. 200 S.).  All are welcome; paying members have voting privileges.


Saturday, 3rd
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- 11:00 AM - ARM (Animal Rights Movement) protest at KFC at 3900 S. State St.  Contact Christan at 759-8855 for more details.

- 12:30 PM - UARC Fur protest at the Gateway, at the intersection of 100 S. and 500 W.

- 2:30 PM - ARM weekly meeting at Living Cuisine (2144 S. 1100 E.)


### IN THE NEWS ###
  For more, visit http://news.yahoo.com/fc/World/Animal_Rights/

Monday
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* 2-for-1 deal offered for kitten adopters
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635162815,00.html
Exceptionally mild weather lingering over the Wasatch Front through November has resulted in an unexpected flood of new kittens at the Humane Society of Utah. ...

* Meat company giving 3,700 lbs. of turkey
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635162899,00.html
Cargill Meat Solutions will donate 3,700 pounds of turkey to the Salt Lake City Mission to help feed the hungry this holiday season. ...


Tuesday
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* Reservoir changes may help endangered fish
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635163123,00.html
GREEN RIVER, Wyo. (AP) \u2014 Proposed changes at Flaming Gorge Reservoir would raise the average water level and cause less fluctuation between seasons. ...

* Man-made ocean noise harms whales, dolphins
  http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_3240941
LOS ANGELES - Increasing levels of ocean noise generated by military sonar, shipping, and oil and gas exploration is threatening dolphins and whales that rely on sound for mating, finding food and avoiding predators, according to a new report. ...


Wednesday
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* Gobs of Utah gobblers are ready for holidays
  Utah's 206 turkey farms churn out millions of the tasty, delectable birds
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635163383,00.html
When it comes to the centerpiece of the Thanksgiving feast, few people know gobblers better than Utah's own turkey farmers.
  There are 206 farms that raise turkeys in the Beehive State, and although only about 65 sell them retail, those sales are a large chunk of Utah's $1.25 billion agriculture industry. ...


Thursday
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* Once-endangered turkeys increasing wildly
  Now 7 million strong, birds pose nuisance \u2014 and amusement
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635163791,00.html
HELLS CANYON, Idaho \u2014 Wild turkeys have something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving: There are more of them around than ever before.
  Eighty years ago, wild turkeys were losing ground to habitat loss and hunting, and only about 30,000 remained. Now there are about 7 million of the birds in the United States, according to the National Wild Turkey Federation. ...

* Should children hunt? Wildlife board says yes
  Utah plan: Proponents say reducing age restrictions will revitalize the sport
  http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3247858
Children in Utah start playing soccer and T-ball by age 5. So why not another ingrained Utah sport - hunting? ...

* In court, feds argue for trucking salmon around Snake River dams
  http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3247860
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Federal agencies that run the federal hydroelectric dams in the Columbia Basin want a judge to let them continue barging and trucking young salmon around fish-killing dams on the Snake River in Eastern Washington, arguing that will bring stronger returns of adult fish. ...


Friday
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* Wildlife Board favors hunting-age change
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635163988,00.html
Utah's Wildlife Board wants to lift or change age restrictions for youth hunting.
  The board approved a proposal this week eliminates the age restriction for hunting small game and reduces the minimum age restrictions for hunting big game from age 14 to age 12. ...

* Elk herd called too much of a good thing
  http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3250552
  Near nuclear plant: They are protected on federal land, but they often stray, and reproduce rapidly
HANFORD REACH NATIONAL MONUMENT, Wash. - To folks driving by, the massive elk roaming freely across south-central Washington's rugged, sagebrush-dotted federal land are a delightful sight. To hunters, they are an enticing target that can't be touched. ...


Saturday
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* Despite efforts by Alaska officials, some animals still are killed
  http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3253853
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska inmates at a prison work farm are taking on a new assignment: butchering the meat of moose struck by trains each winter along a 68-mile stretch of track. ...


Sunday
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* Yellowstone cutthroat in peril, study says
  Native trout numbers have been dropping dramatically
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635164471,00.html
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. \u2014 The Yellowstone cutthroat trout population in the nation's oldest national park "appears to be in peril," according to a new scientific journal article by National Park Service scientists.
  The article in Fisheries, the magazine of the American Fisheries Society, cites a population decline of at least 60 percent in Yellowstone Lake, the fish's largest refuge. ...


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That's it for this week.  Thanks for reading!