Updates on Utah's wildlife from the DWR
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From 2019 to 2024, Utah's specialty wildlife license plates raised over $1.9 million for wildlife conservation efforts in Utah.
Sportsman permits are among Utah's most prized hunting permits, and the time for Utah residents to apply for the 2026 permits is coming up soon.
The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and The Peregrine Fund are once again asking hunters in the Zion hunting unit to stop at a check station this month, where they can demonstrate their efforts to help protect scavenging wildlife — like eagles, hawks and California condors — and also enter to win a prize.
The Utah Cutthroat Slam has reached a new milestone of over 2,000 slam completions. Now, anglers who finish the popular fishing challenge can choose which of the four species-specific medallions they want with each slam completion.
Each fall, bird-watchers travel to western states to see sandhill cranes in the wild, but if you live near a field in the Uintah Basin, you're no stranger to the loud, rattling call of these large migratory birds. If you have never seen or heard one up close, you will have the opportunity at some upcoming Utah Division of Wildlife Resources viewing events.
Did you know Utah's outdoors are busy places while you're asleep? You can learn why and see amazing photographs of the animals that are out and about by visiting a free exhibit at the Hardware Wildlife Education Center in October.
Hunters are again being asked to bring their harvested deer to various stations across the state during this fall's hunts, so Utah Division of Wildlife Resources biologists can test the animals for chronic wasting disease.
The Utah Wildlife Board approved a few updates to the mountain goat and bighorn sheep statewide management plans during the midplan review, as well as updates to population objectives for deer on three hunting units in southeastern Utah, and a few other items during a public meeting Thursday, Sept. 18.
It's a quiet, still morning as you sit near the edge of a lake in your blind. You hear some birds in the distance and turn your head to see several ducks flying toward you. Your heartbeat quickens, and you slowly raise your shotgun. Waterfowl hunting season is finally here.
Watch the Utah Wildlife Board meeting live, beginning Thursday, Sept. 18, at 9 a.m. The agenda and meeting materials are available on the public meetings page.
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