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While many events are still canceled due to COVID-19, fly fishing is a great recreational opportunity that offers a fun way to enjoy Utah's outdoors, and June is an ideal time of year for it.
If you hike or camp in an area where deer live in Utah, don't be surprised if you come across a deer fawn, or maybe even an elk calf, during the early summer.
Law enforcement officers and technicians for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources had a busy Memorial Day weekend, working to prevent invasive quagga mussels from spreading.
If you'd like to catch a fish in Utah's beautiful outdoors — while social distancing, of course — but you don't have a fishing license, Free Fishing Day is the perfect opportunity to give it a try.
If putting locally sourced, nutritious meat on the table while enjoying Utah's beautiful outdoors sounds good to you, take note that the application period for Utah's 2020 antlerless hunts opens soon.
May 15 is Endangered Species Day. There are currently 10 wildlife species in Utah on the federal endangered species list, and eight are listed as threatened. Here's a look at how the DWR and other agencies are helping the endangered razorback sucker in Utah.
Utah DWR conservation officers will be conducting several administrative checkpoints during busy boating weekends throughout the summer, in an effort to prevent invasive quagga mussels from spreading from Lake Powell to other Utah waterbodies.
The daily limit increased to eight trout on a portion of Mammoth Creek on Monday, which will allow anglers to catch and keep more fish before the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources treats the river with rotenone to remove its remaining fish.
After temporarily suspending professional, hot water decontaminations at Lake Powell due to COVID-19 concerns and instead implementing a mandatory 30-day dry time, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources will reinstate inspections and decontaminations for watercraft when Lake Powell boat ramps reopen.
The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is proposing several changes to upland game and turkey hunting in the state, including a recommendation that would allow airguns during the fall turkey hunts and throughout the rabbit and hare seasons.
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