Utah Division of Wildlife Resources Launches Massive Patrol Effort

By Justin Stakes

Utah conservation officers need your help in stopping poachers.

Salt Lake City, UT -(AmmoLand.com)- This winter is not a good time to try to kill a mule deer illegally in Utah.

Conservation officers with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources are conducting massive patrols on ranges on which deer congregate in the winter. They’re conducting the patrols with one goal in mind: to protect Utah’s mule deer from poachers.

Tony Wood, chief of the DWR’s Law Enforcement Section, says in the winter, deer congregate on ranges at lower elevations. As large groups of deer bunch together, they provide poachers with an enticing target. But the deers’ behavior helps wildlife officers too: it directs them to areas where poaching will most likely happen.

Officers aren’t focusing their efforts entirely on popular winter ranges, though.

“If there’s an area in Utah that attracts mule deer in the winter,” Wood says, “we’re watching it.”

Wood encourages you to get involved.

“This winter,” he says, “before you travel to an area where deer congregate, program 1-800-662-3337 into your …Read the Rest

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