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Report your game harvest

Your harvest information enables us to better manage wildlife

Reporting your hunt information is important. Harvest reports are a crucial tool so that we can maintain more comprehensive and quality harvest data, which in turn provides better insights into Utah's big game hunts and populations over time.

Report your harvest

All big game species have mandatory reporting requirements — even if you didn't harvest an animal. Not completing your harvest report in a timely manner can impact you in several ways:

  • It can affect your ability to hunt or get a bonus or preference point in the next year's hunt drawing.
  • You will need to pay a $50 late fee after the 30-day reporting window in order to be eligible for next year's big game and antlerless applications. (This fee will be waived for the 2024 buck deer and bull elk general-season hunts; see further information about this requirement, below.)

Submitting teeth or other biological samples from your animal — or having your animal checked by a DWR representative or CWMU operator — does not fulfill your mandatory harvest reporting requirement.

Information you will need to complete your harvest survey

Complete your harvest survey online or call 800-221-0659.

To complete your mandatory harvest survey, you must provide the following information:

  • Log in with your DWR Customer ID number (on your hunting or combination license) and date of birth
  • The total number of days hunted
  • The number of animals wounded (if any)
  • If you successfully harvested:
    • the date and location of the kill
    • deer and elk hunters report the number of points on each antler and the antler width at the widest point (in inches) from the animal
    • bull elk hunters report additional antler measurements — like the main beam length of one antler (to the nearest eighth of an inch) and the length of each point (to the nearest eighth of an inch)
    • Once-in-a-lifetime species have additional measurements required for their harvest report (see below)
    • See an example of these types of measurements.

New this year: Beginning in 2024, if you obtain a general-season buck deer or bull elk permit of any kind, you must report your harvest online or call it in at 800-221-0659 (our toll-free harvest survey hotline). Harvest reporting is now mandatory, even if you did not hunt or did not harvest. Failure to comply will result in exclusion from next year's big game and antlerless hunt drawings. (The $50 reinstatement fee will be waived for the 2024 buck deer and bull elk general-season hunts.)

This mandatory reporting requirement includes the following hunts:

  • General-season buck deer
  • Lifetime buck deer
  • Leftover buck deer
  • General-season landowner buck deer
  • Dedicated Hunter buck deer
  • General-season youth archery buck deer (over-the-counter)
  • General-season draw-only any bull/hunter's choice elk
  • General-season any bull elk
  • General-season spike bull elk
  • General-season youth elk
  • General-season archery elk

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Extended archery season reporting

Harvest reporting is considered late 30 calendar days after the end of the season dates listed on your permit. However, if you have obtained a general season buck deer archery permit, youth general season buck deer any legal weapon permit, dedicated hunter permit, general season hunter’s choice elk archery permit, or youth general season bull elk permit, you must report 30 calendar days after the end of the extended archery season.

Harvest reporting is mandatory. Mandatory harvest reporting includes all limited-entry, premium limited-entry, once-in-a-lifetime and CWMU permits. Reporting is required even if you did not hunt or did not harvest. Failure to comply will result in exclusion from next year's big game and antlerless hunt drawings. You may report your harvest online or by calling toll-free 800-221-0659. Submitting teeth or other biological samples from your animal, or having your animal checked by a DWR representative or CWMU operator does not fulfill your mandatory harvest reporting requirement (except for bighorn sheep check-in). You must still report your harvest online or by calling the toll-free harvest survey hotline.

  • Mandatory check-in for bighorn sheep: After harvesting a bighorn sheep, you must bring the horns to a DWR office within 72 hours of leaving your hunting area. Checking in a bighorn sheep will fulfill your mandatory harvest reporting requirement. If you received a bighorn sheep permit and did not hunt or did not harvest, you must complete your harvest survey online or by calling toll-free 800-221-0659.
  • Mandatory check-in for management buck deer: After harvesting a management buck deer, you must bring the head and antlers to a DWR for inspection within 72 hours of leaving your hunting area. Checking in a management buck deer does not fulfill your mandatory harvest reporting requirement. All management buck deer hunters, regardless of success, must complete their harvest survey online or by calling toll-free 800-221-0659.
  • Information you will need to complete your mandatory harvest survey:
    • Login with your DWR Customer ID number (on your hunting or combination license) and date of birth
    • The total number of days hunted
    • The number of animals wounded (if any)
    • If you successfully harvested:
      • the date and location of the kill
      • deer, elk and moose hunters report the number of points on each antler and the antler width at the widest point (in inches) from the animal
      • bull elk hunters report additional antler measurements, like the main beam length of one antler (to the nearest eighth of an inch), and the length of each point (to the nearest eighth of an inch)
      • pronghorn, bison, bighorn sheep and mountain goat hunters report left and right horn length and horn circumference (in inches) from the harvested animal
      • See an example of these types of measurements.

Report your harvest

If you obtain an antlerless permit of any kind, you must report your harvest online or call 800-221-0659 (our toll-free harvest survey hotline). Harvest reporting for all antlerless permits is mandatory, even if you did not hunt or did not harvest. Failure to comply will result in a $50 fine and/or exclusion from next year's big game and antlerless hunt drawings. Submitting teeth or other biological samples from your animal — or having your animal checked by a DWR representative or CWMU operator — does not fulfill your mandatory harvest reporting requirement.

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Big game teeth, blood samples and chronic wasting disease testing

Occasionally, we ask successful big game hunters to submit a tooth, blood or tissue sample from their animal. We analyze teeth for aging purposes. We sometimes collect blood samples from bison and elk for brucellosis testing. If you receive a tooth envelope or blood sampling kit, please follow all included instructions. Submitting a tooth or a blood sample, or having your animal sampled for chronic wasting disease testing, does not fulfill any mandatory harvest reporting requirements. You must still complete your harvest survey online or by calling toll-free 800-221-0659.

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