DWR proposes changes to Utah’s 2018 big game hunts

SALT LAKE CITY — Biologists with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources are recommending several new approaches aimed at reducing hunter crowding during the 2018 general rifle buck deer hunt.
The recommendations include holding an early season rifle buck deer hunt; holding a late-season limited-entry muzzleloader buck deer hunt; giving bull elk hunters a chance to hunt all three seasons — archery, rifle and muzzleloader; and holding a special "cactus buck-only" hunt in southwestern