DWR publications and papers

Guidebooks

• Hunting and fishing guidebooks — These guidebooks contain the information you must know to hunt or fish in Utah.

Wildlife and habitat

• Wildlife Action Plan — A plan for managing native wildlife species and their habitats to help prevent listings under the Endangered Species Act. — 2015–2025 (PDF)
• Implementation of Secretarial Order 3362: Utah Action Plan — A plan for implementing Secretarial Order 3362, signed in 2018 by Dept. of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, providing funding to wildlife migration projects in Eagle Mountain, the I-80 and I-84 Corridor, the Zion hunt unit and the Paunsaugunt hunt unit. — (PDF)
• The Power of Proactive Conservation — How recent partnerships and successes are keeping Utah species off the Endangered Species List. — 2018 (PDF)
• Creating Landscapes for Wildlife — A Utah residents' guide to creating wildlife-friendly backyards. — (PDF)

Fisheries

• Fishing Boulder Mountain — A Utah Blue Ribbon fishing destination — A brochure about Utah's Blue Ribbon fisheries — 2015 (PDF)
• Conservation Agreement and Strategy for Least Chubs — 2005 (PDF)
• Utah Blue Ribbon Fishing— 2015 (PDF)
• Scofield Reservoir Fisheries Management Plan— 2017 (PDF)

Aquatic Animal Health and Research Center (formerly Fisheries Experiment Station)

• The Ichthyogram — Quarterly newsletter from 1990–2008.
• Research publications — Formal fisheries research since 1986.

Hunting

• Integrating moral norms and stewardship identity into the theory of planned behavior to understand altruistic conservation behavior among hunters in southwestern Utah — from Human Dimensions of Wildlife: An International Journal — This study integrates moral norms and stewardship identity to predict the use of non-lead ammunition in the California condor recovery zone of southwestern Utah. — 2024 (PDF)

Management plans

• Big game
  • Bighorn sheep
    • Statewide plan — (PDF)
    • Unit plans
  • Bison
    • Book Cliffs unit — (PDF)
    • Henry Mountains unit — (PDF)
  • Mule deer
    • Statewide plan — (PDF)
    • Unit plans
  • Elk
    • Statewide plan — (PDF)
    • Unit plans
  • Moose — (PDF)
  • Mountain goat
    • Statewide plan — (PDF)
    • Unit plans
  • Pronghorn — (PDF)
• Black bear — (PDF)
• Furbearer
  • Beaver — (PDF)
  • Bobcat — (PDF)
  • Gunnison & white-tailed prairie dog — (PDF)
  • Northern river otter — (PDF)
• Upland game & turkey
  • Chukar — (PDF)
  • Sage-grouse — (PDF)
  • Wild turkey — (PDF)