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Panel backs education, donation and stewardship tools for Wildlife Management Areas; livestock retrieval carve‑out added
Summary
The committee reviewed draft Wildlife Management Area amendments designed to reduce damage from increased recreation near neighborhoods by educating users, enabling voluntary donations to specific WMAs, and expanding volunteer stewardship. Members adopted a friendly amendment allowing adjacent landowners to access WMAs to recover wandering stock;
Representative Shallenberger presented a draft set of changes to clarify how Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are managed near communities and to encourage stewardship by non‑angling recreationists. The sponsor summarized three priorities: education, optional donations tied to specific WMAs, and volunteer service opportunities. "The 3 main areas as we present this bill is education, education, education," he said.
Schallenberger used the Timpanogos WMA—adjacent to neighborhoods and the Bonneville…
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