Establishing a dedicated wildlife crossing fund would cement Utah’s position as a national leader in reconnecting landscapes, reducing wildlife-vehicle collisions and keeping both people and wildlife ...

Utah’s mule deer population typically ebbs and flows, but Dax Mangus says it has felt more like a downward spiral recently. The state’s deer population dropped from about 376,450 in 2018 to as low as ...

Wildlife experts have been predicting a mule deer extinction for decades. Luckily, no one seems to have told the deer ...

Utah’s deer population has faced significant challenges in recent years, prompting state wildlife officials to call on the public for help. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is inviting ...

The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and Department of Transportation completed 11 projects across Utah in 2025 to help ...

Wildlife managers in Utah have begun culling mountain lions in six of the state’s game management units as part of a new study. The objective of the three-year study is to gauge the impacts these ...

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I’m a sheep producer in southern Utah. Over the past decade, cougars have killed roughly 100 sheep on my farm. Those ...

Two Utah men have been found guilty of residency fraud and illegal hunting in connection with the illegal harvest of a mule deer near the Utah/Nevada border.

The investigation started after a hunter alerted officers at the Army post about a poached buck in a training area in ...

People from other parts of the country often get pretty excited about seeing deer in the wild. Along the Wasatch Front — particularly near the foothills — having deer around is just part of daily life ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Wildlife Board approved the big game hunting permit numbers for 2025, as well as a few other changes to big game hunting rules in Utah, during its public meeting on May 1.