Hunting upland game & turkey
Migratory game birds have moved
Beginning in 2025, the migratory game birds formerly included in the Utah Upland Game and Turkey Guidebook — American crow, band-tailed pigeon, mourning and white-winged dove, and sandhill crane — are now regulated under Utah Admin. Rule R657-9 as approved by the Utah Wildlife Board. If you're hunting migratory game birds or waterfowl (ducks, geese, snipe, coots and tundra swan), please see the newly named Utah Waterfowl and Migratory Game Birds Guidebook, for permit information, field requirements, season dates, bag and possession limits, and more.
Upland Game and Turkey Guidebook
Want to hunt wild turkey? What about grouse, pheasant, quail or rabbit? The Utah Upland Game and Turkey Guidebook summarizes the laws and rules for these species and more.
- Published: June 23, 2025
- Version: 2025.1
Download – PDF (6.1 MB)
Important changes and corrections made after the guidebook was printed.
Updates
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The Utah Legislature recodified all Chapter 10 code citations as follows, effective May 7, 2025:
Previous New 76-10-502 76-11-102 76-10-503 76-11-302 76-10-504 53-5a-3 76-10-505 76-11-204 76-10-508 76-11-208 76-10-512 76-11-303 76-10-523 53-5a-108 76-10-528 76-11-217 The digital editions of all Utah hunting guidebooks have been updated with the new code citations throughout. (Nov. 13, 2025)
Upland game
- Hunting tips for rabbits, hares, forest grouse and doves
- Harvest reporting requirements for upland game
- Upland game annual reports
- Upland game management plan – PDF (5.5 MB)
- Video: Utah Upland Game Seminar
Upland game & turkey drawing results
- View your upland game & turkey drawing results
- View past upland game & turkey drawing odds and point purchases (since 2026)
- View historical drawing odds and point results (prior to 2026)
Buy permits or apply to hunt drawings
Upland game bird band recovery form
Walk-in Access
- The Walk-in Access Program compensates landowners for opening their property to hunting, fishing and trapping.
Rules & regulations
Upland game slams
Commercial hunting areas
Youth upland game hunts
Utah's Trial Hunting Program
Maps
Turkeys
- Talking turkey: The basics of hunting turkeys
- Tips and tactics from the National Wild Turkey Federation
- Walk-in Access property map
- Wild turkey management plan
- Video: Turkey hunting 101 seminar
- Utah turkey habitat map
Grouse
- Conservation plan for greater sage grouse – PDF (2 MB)
- Columbian sharp-tailed grouse plan, 2002 – PDF (767.98 KB)
- Grouse-related GIS shape files
- General grouse information
- Improving your forest grouse hunting skills – PDF (4 MB)
- Hunting tips for rabbits, hares, forest grouse and doves
- Grouse habitat maps
Pheasants
Pen-reared gamebirds
Chukars
- 2025 chukar update – PDF (1.1 MB)
- 2025 Statewide Upland Game Guzzler Plan – PDF (1.3 MB)
- 2003 Chukar management plan – PDF (356.74 KB)
- Chukar habitat map
Quail
White-tailed ptarmigans
- Uinta Mountains ptarmigans
- Utah white-tailed ptarmigan habitat map
- Callback surveys, pointing dog surveys, genetic analysis – PDF (5.2 MB)