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Wildlife board adopts Taking Big Game rule amendments; asks staff to study aerial hunting and retrieval
Summary
The Utah Wildlife Board approved amendments to the Taking Big Game rule and unanimously added use of aerial equipment for hunting and retrieval to the board's action log for further review after public comment raised concerns about helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and drones.
The Utah Wildlife Board on May 1 approved amendments to the Taking Big Game rule and unanimously asked staff to add the use of aerial equipment for hunting and retrieval to the board's action log for further review.
The board voted to adopt the proposed changes to the Taking Big Game rule, then discussed public comment about the use of aircraft and drones in remote areas. "We made a change to the aerial hunting portion of our taking big game rule a few years back, where, essentially, you just can't hunt big game the same day you fly," Dax, the division's Big Game coordinator, told the board. He said the division does…
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