News about Utah's wildlife and the Division of Wildlife Resources
Wildlife biologists found an encouraging sight when they visited a bear den near Vernal: Two bear yearlings, which were just cubs one year before, that were alive and doing well.
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The Division of Wildlife Resources and the Wild Bird Center of Layton will sponsor a free field trip on March 27 to a historic sage-grouse breeding ground. You'll have to get up early if you'd like to participate, but, if you do, you'll see something few people have seen in nature.
Samples from big game animals taken this past hunting season turned up something never seen in Utah before—an elk with chronic wasting disease.
During the weekends of April 2–3 and April 16–17, state wildlife biologists will take small groups of people to see Gunnison sage-grouse strut on leks (breeding grounds) west of Monticello.
Before your next trip to the Henry Mountains to collect shed antlers, please call or visit the Bureau of Land Management offices in Hanksville or Richfield. To protect the deer, the BLM has enacted a new travel plan. The plan requires motorized vehicles to stay on designated routes.
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