Friday, 19 March 2010 11:00
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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Friday, 19 March 2010 10:58
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.
Friday, 19 March 2010 10:56
Samples from big game animals taken this past hunting season turned up something never seen in Utah before—an elk with chronic wasting disease.
Friday, 19 March 2010 10:54
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.
Friday, 19 March 2010 10:49
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.
Thursday, 11 March 2010 10:49
Thursday, 04 March 2010 15:14
With one exception—cow bison permits for the Henry Mountains—the number of hunting permits could go up this fall for most of Utah's big game animals.
Thursday, 04 March 2010 14:45
Utah's 15-member Elk Advisory Committee helped the DWR draft the updated five-year Elk Management Plan. If the plan passes, two major elk hunting changes would happen.
Thursday, 04 March 2010 14:09
At their March 4 meeting in Salt Lake City, members of the Utah Wildlife Board voted against a proposal that would have allowed people to collect and keep Great Basin rattlesnakes.
Tuesday, 02 March 2010 10:44
The DWR will accept big game drawing applications for an extra week. You now have until 11 p.m. MST on March 8, 2010 to submit your application.
Tuesday, 02 March 2010 10:32
The Great Salt Lake Nature Center is looking for volunteer naturalists. If you would like to learn more about the birds, plants and wetlands around the Great Salt Lake, and then share what you learn with school kids, then the Great Salt Lake Nature Center wants you.
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