DWR Propose Changes for Utah’s 2018 Big Game Hunts

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

USA -(Ammoland.com)- Division of Wildlife Resources biologists are recommending new and innovative approaches that would reduce hunter crowding during Utah’s 2018 general rifle buck deer hunt. The approaches would also create more flexibility and opportunity for both deer and elk hunters.

Covy Jones, big game coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources, says all of the changes biologists are recommending are a result of biologists listening to hunters.

“Almost all of the requests we receive from big game hunters have a common theme: we’d like more opportunity to hunt big game,” he says. “We’ve examined how the state’s big game populations are doing and the current hunt structure we have. We think we’ve found some innovative ways to meet the requests of hunters without negatively affecting the herds.”

The following are the DWR’s major big game hunting recommendations for 2018:

• In addition to the regular general rifle buck deer hunt, hold an early-season rifle buck deer hunt on 10 general deer hunting units in the state. The early-season hunt would happen in mid-October. Holding an early-season hunt would significantly reduce hunter crowding in some areas by splitting the general rifle hunt into …Read the Rest

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