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Senate approves user-funded upland-game habitat stamp to finance pheasant habitat work
Summary
The Utah Senate passed Senate Bill 63 to create an upland-game habitat stamp paid by upland-game hunters; sponsors said 75% of revenues will go to habitat improvements while questions remained about predator control, private lands and accounting burdens.
Senators voted to advance Senate Bill 63, establishing an upland-game habitat stamp intended to fund habitat improvements for upland game birds such as pheasants.
Senator McMullen, sponsor of SB63, told the chamber the stamp would be paid by hunters pursuing upland game and administered through the Department of Fish and Game. McMullen said the measure is designed to focus funding on habitat improvements and noted the bill limits administrative uses: “It will be handled by the Department of Fish and Game,” he said. He also proposed an amendment to…
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