Why are Utah hunters killing so many trumpeter swans?

For the second year in a row, Utah wildlife officials shut down the state’s swan season early after hunters killed an excessive number of rare trumpeter swans, which can be mistook for tundra swans.The large-bodied trumpeters were hunted to near extinction a century ago, but a few pockets survived in remote parts of Idaho and Montana where they could find open water year round. Now they appear to be migrating again in large numbers and consequently finding themselves in hunters’ cros