Salt Lake City — Starting Jan. 1, 2019, you can use corn as bait at any fishing water in Utah. You can also keep more lake trout at Flaming Gorge Reservoir, enjoy a two-day possession limit statewide, and have a better chance at catching big channel catfish at Cutler Reservoir. […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Utah state wildlife officials are studying the brown trout population in the American Fork River to assess how the fish are recovering following a large sediment release from a nearby dam that nearly wiped out the fish population. The Utah Department of Wildlife Resources spent some […]
Biologists with the Division of Wildlife Resources are recommending changes that will affect anglers in Utah for the next two years. If the changes are approved, you’d be allowed to use corn as bait at all of Utah’s fishing waters, keep more lake trout at Flaming Gorge Reservoir, enjoy a […]
Beaver — You could see as many as 100 mountain goats on Aug. 11. And you might not need binoculars to see them. At some past viewing events, goats have gotten as close as 35 feet to those viewing them. On Aug. 11, the Division of Wildlife Resources will host its annual […]
ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah (AP) — Zion National Park visitors are being asked to alert wildlife biologists if they encounter bighorn sheep coughing a lot. Excessive coughing is a symptom of pneumonia and park officials and the state Division of Wildlife Resources said Tuesday that a bacterium commonly associated with […]
Cougars are doing well in Utah. So well, in fact, that a few more hunters might be allowed to hunt them this fall. This past season, hunters were given the opportunity to take 581 cougars in the state. For the upcoming season, biologists with the Division of Wildlife Resources are […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Wildlife officials worried that sediment spewed from a southern Utah wildfire could poison and destroy a native fishery have rescued and relocated 400 local fish to a hatchery, in a glimpse of the sweeping impact wildfires have on the state. Damage done by the fire […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has decided to enforce tougher rules on its predator control program to prevent criminal abuses and obtain better data. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the overhaul comes after the agency found that a couple had turned in 95 coyote scalps from […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah wildlife officials have approved a plan to let loose about 50 desert bighorn sheep this fall in a southern Utah mountain range despite concerns from woolgrowers who fear the plan could have negative effects on the domestic sheep they manage. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the […]
