The department is reviewing Chapter 46 (fishing) and Chapter 22 (watercraft) regulations.
The virtual Zoom meeting will take place at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 18. Interested people can register here to attend. Once registered, you will receive an email with a link and a password to join the meeting.
Proposed changes to fishing regulations in southwest Wyoming include a change to the creel limit for Kokanee salmon at Flaming Gorge Reservoir. The current regulation on trout and kokanee includes a creel limit of four fish per day or in possession, and no more than three shall be Kokanee salmon. In an effort to simplify the regulation, Game and Fish is proposing to delete the sentence “no more than three shall be Kokanee salmon.
Last week, Utah State University hosted a webinar for natural resource professionals to discuss a drought reporting network called âCondition Monitoring Observer Reports.â Through a mobile app, Utah citizens can document drought impacts and submit their observations to a database used by state and university drought researchers and scientists. The data can help give scientists a more qualitative, detailed understanding of on-the-ground conditions and impacts of drought. Are farmersâ crops, or ranchersâ grazing areas, being affected? Are recreation areas changing? Photographs showing a location in a wet year and later in a dry year can give helpful comparative references.
Details like these, giving a fuller picture of what it means to be in a condition of drought, are increasingly important to scientists, policy-makers, and citizens of the Southwest as we grapple with the ongoing dry conditions. On March 17, Utah Governor Spencer Cox declared Utah to be in a state
Published May 5, 2021 at 6:59 PM MDT Listen • 4:53 Courtesy of James Shook A visitor to Antelope Island State Park Tuesday captured a rare wolverine sighting on video. The animals are elusive and normally live in high mountain territories. This story and more in Wednesday evening s news brief.
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State Officials Seeking Input On Teen Treatment Program Rules
Utah is changing its rules for teen treatment programs and the state wants the public to weigh in. The Department of Human Services released an online survey Wednesday morning. It’s looking for public input on how the new rules should be written. The state said it wants to hear from a wide audience. That includes program owners, staff, former residents and their families and concerned citizens. The changes are because of a new law which went into effect Wednesday. It tightens oversight of teen treatment businesses in Utah. The industry has faced mounting
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SYRACUSE Michigan may be the Wolverine State, but Utah wildlife biologists confirmed Wednesday a very rare wolverine sighting in the Beehive State this week.
The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources received a report of a wolverine sighting by the Bridger Bay Campground in the northwest end of Antelope Island Tuesday.
State biologists used photos and video that had been posted to social media to confirm the sighting. A 35-second video and photos taken by James Shook and Kyle Mays shows a wolverine running across an open land during broad daylight.
It s the first confirmed sighting of a wolverine since June 2016, when a wolverine carcass was located by the Utah Department of Transportation near Bear Lake in Rich County.