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In an effort to increase consistency and to allow for multiple land use, the Utah State Parks Board recently passed a new rule that allows for expanded hunting opportunities within state parks.
The DWR captures around 1,000 big game animals each year to perform health assessments and to place GPS collars on the animals to learn more about their migration patterns.
You can see wild tundra and trumpeter swans at two free events hosted by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources during this year's Wild Swan Day on March 14. The events will be held at the Salt Creek WMA, southwest of Tremonton, and at the Farmington Bay WMA in Farmington.
Anglers who catch a northern pike with a red tag in Utah Lake should report it to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and then let the fish go.
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources officials are reminding the public not to feed deer or other wildlife after corn kernels were discovered in the gut of a deer that recently died of chronic wasting disease in the Moab area.
The Great Salt Lake is known for its incredibly high salinity levels that allow people to float, but many may not be aware of its multi-million dollar brine shrimp industry and how the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources manages it to help balance a unique ecosystem.
If you want to see thousands of geese lifting off Gunnison Bend Reservoir amid honks and the beating of wings, head to the annual Delta Snow Goose Festival later this month.
A great way to get outdoors is embarking on an afternoon or a weekend of ice fishing. Here are three spots that offer great fishing in February as well as incredible views to help you forget the cold temperatures.
A year after a contagious respiratory disease decimated a bighorn sheep herd at Antelope Island State Park, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources successfully reintroduced a new herd of 25 bighorn sheep to the island on Wednesday, Jan. 29.
Recent test results have confirmed that a unique black deer that became well-known and loved by Moab residents died of chronic wasting disease, a relatively rare, but fatal transmissible disease that affects the nervous systems of deer, elk and moose.
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