Annual Elk Festival set for Dec. 7 at Hardware Ranch - Deseret News

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HYRUM, Cache County — The annual Elk Festival, set for Saturday, Dec. 7, will give visitors a chance to ride a horse-drawn sleigh or wagon through the middle of hundreds of wild elk at the Hardware Ranch Wildlife Management Area.

The event runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the ranch, which is 16 miles east of Hyrum on state Route 101.

In addition to the sleigh or wagon rides, the one-day festival will feature several free activities, such as making Christmas ornaments using sagebrush, butter brush and other plants found in the area and making pinecone bird feeders.

Visitors can also learn how to call elk and then demonstrate their newly learned skills at an amateur elk-calling contest at 1 p.m.

While those activities are free, sleigh and wagon rides are $5 for participants 9 and older, and $3 for those 4 to 8 years old.

According to Brad Hunt, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources employee who manages the ranch, visitors should bring binoculars to view the elk and should dress for all types of weather as “we’ll host the event event if it snows.”

Food is not available at the ranch, but visitors can bring their own.

Sleigh and wagon rides will begin at the ranch the day before the festival and will run from noon to 4:30 p.m. on Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays through Feb. 9, when the elk will no longer be fed due to fears of brucellosis, a bacterial disease that causes abortions and low fertility rates in affected cattle, bison and elk.

Animals contact the disease when they come in contact with an aborted, infected fetus or contaminated birth fluids.

According to the division, the disease has not yet been detected in Utah, but biologists are concerned that elk migrating from Utah to areas in the north where brucellosis is found could bring the it into the state. Biologists say ending feeding early should disperse the elk reducing the chance of an outbreak.

For more information, visit the division’s website at wildlife.utah.gov/hardware-events.html or call the ranch at 435-753-6206.



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