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Rack approves 2025 deer permit recommendations after debate over Thousand Lakes weapon split
Summary
The Rack accepted the Division’s deer permit recommendations for 2025, including several limited‑entry and general‑season adjustments and the new 20% automatic adjustment rule. A separate motion to change the Thousand Lakes limited‑entry weapon split to match the statewide standard failed before the full package passed unanimously.
The Rack voted to approve the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources’ 2025 deer permit recommendations after discussion of multiple units and a contentious vote over the Thousand Lakes limited‑entry weapon split.
Division big‑game staff summarized that the state is implementing a direction from the statewide deer plan to automatically adjust buck permits where the model produces change below 20%, and that most units saw only small changes. Staff said the recommendation set focused on a handful of general‑season units and a few limited‑entry units where modelling and local data justified changes. "Using the data that we use to come up with our buck permits to just automatically make the adjustments on units where the change would be less than 20% difference from the previous…
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