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Hunting & trapping furbearers

Furbearer Guidebook

Taking, possessing, selling and purchasing furbearing animals, including bobcats and martens.

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Updates

At the Jan. 9, 2025 meeting, the Utah Wildlife Board approved some changes regarding cougar trapping. Updates to the digital edition of this guidebook include:

Page 15: Allowing the use of rimfire cartridges and ammunition to harvest cougars caught in traps. (Rimfire cartridges and ammunition may not be used to harvest cougars not confined in traps.)
Page 26: Allowing the sale of "green" cougar pelts, and the sale of claws if they are still attached to the hide. Any pelt still must have a permanent tag issued by the DWR within 48 hours of harvest.

The digital edition of this guidebook has been updated with these additions.

Corrections

Page 16: In the "Trap restrictions to protect river otters" information box, the correct trapping-device restriction distance from certain waterbodies is 600 yards (not 100 yards as was indicated in the print edition).

The online edition of this guidebook has been updated with this correction.

Regulation changes

Questions & answers
Utah's revised furbearer & trapping regulations.

Forms

Fur Dealer Annual Report
Trap check permission card
Allows an authorized person to check traps for a registered trap owner.
Transportation authorization
Authorize transport of a bobcat or marten by someone other than the furharvester.