Law enforcement
Utah's conservation officers work to protect our wildlife heritage on behalf of ethical sportsmen and others who value wildlife. These dispatches represent a fraction of the ongoing efforts to protect your wildlife resources.
April 3, 2018, 12:40 pm
Mark Thayn, the owner of La Sal Mountain Outfitters, pled guilty to Wanton Destruction of Protected Wildlife, a third degree felony, for his role in the poaching of a cow elk.
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February 6, 2018, 10:26 am
DWR conservation officers are searching for the individuals who killed four geese and 29 ducks and then left them to waste near a trail in Farmington Canyon.
January 10, 2018, 11:26 am
DWR conservation officers are searching for the person who shot and killed a buck deer commonly seen and photographed along Hwy 65 near East Canyon Resort. When the animal was found, his head was missing, and the rest of his body had been left to rot.
December 11, 2017, 11:26 am
During the months of October and November, within about a two-week period, seven deer were poached and left to waste in Kane County. Officers investigated and found that most of the deer were shot in the head or the base of the head.
December 6, 2017, 3:01 pm
DWR officers are seeking information that could lead to the apprehension and prosecution of the individual(s) that shot a four-point buck deer with archery equipment and fled the area. The deer was left to die with no attempt to salvage any part of the deer.
December 1, 2017, 12:41 pm
On November 22, 2017 a concerned hunter contacted the UTIP hotline to report a moose carcass he found while elk hunting in the Mt. Aire area, near Lamb's Canyon. DWR officers investigated and believe the bull moose was killed between Nov. 15 and Nov. 22. The moose was partially skinned, the antlers were removed and the meat was left to waste.
November 30, 2017, 2:51 pm
Over Thanksgiving weekend, a citizen in Lehi called the UTiP hotline to report finding the headless carcass of a buck deer. DWR conservation officers responded to investigate. When officers investigated the scene, which was near 1350 W 800 N in Lehi, they determined the buck had been shot with a rifle.
November 14, 2017, 11:20 am
Sometime around Oct. 29, during the last weekend of the general rifle deer hunt, a buck deer was illegally killed on the Sand Creek Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit (CWMU) in Duchesne County. DWR conservation officers investigated and determined the mature buck was shot with a rifle. The person who killed it took only the head and left all of the meat to waste.
November 6, 2017, 2:20 pm
On Oct. 10, 2017, just 11 days before the opening of Utah's general deer season, a Carbon County resident called their local Utah Division of Wildlife Resources conservation officer and reported that someone had shot and killed a large buck deer.
October 4, 2017, 10:00 am
On Sept. 21, 2017, a concerned citizen contacted DWR Conservation Officer Dakota Pray about a poached bull moose in Rich County. Officer Pray responded to the scene and located a small bull moose that had been shot several times with a .22 caliber firearm.
