Posted September 22, 2017 11:10 am by Comments

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson

Ducks Unlimited

Two opening days this year

Utah’s Waterfowl Hunt Looks Promising this Season

Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR)Utah-(Ammoland.com)- If you enjoy hunting ducks, geese or swans in Utah, get ready for a good hunt. And give a nod to the snow and rain that fell from the sky earlier this year.

Blair Stringham, migratory game bird coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources, says dry conditions in 2016 provided little food for birds to eat. “Utah had a hard time holding birds last year,” he says. “Birds arrived, didn’t find much to eat and moved on.”

Stringham says this year should be different. “Most of the state’s waterfowl management areas and federal bird refuges have had water on them all year,” he says. “The ponds produced plenty of pondweed and other plants for the birds to eat. Abundant food should keep birds here longer and result in better hunting.”

The level of Great Salt Lake is another bright spot. The lake is almost four feet higher now than it was at this time last fall.

“Every time the lake rises one foot,” Stringham says, “about 10,000 acres of wetlands appear along its shoreline. Since the lake is four …Read the Rest

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