Current through Bulletin 2024-18, September 15, 2024
(1) An individual
may not use or permit a dog to harass, pursue, or take protected wildlife
unless otherwise allowed for in Title 23, the Wildlife Resources Code of Utah,
or the rules outlined in a guidebook of the Wildlife Board.
(2) Dogs may be used to locate and retrieve
upland game during open upland game hunting seasons.
(3) Dogs are generally allowed on state
wildlife management and waterfowl management areas, subject to the following
conditions.
(a) dogs are not allowed on the
following state wildlife management areas and waterfowl management areas
between March 10 and August 31 annually or as posted by the division:
(i) Annabella;
(ii) Bear River Trenton Property
Parcel;
(iii) Bicknell
Bottoms;
(iv) Blue Lake;
(v) Browns Park;
(vi) Bud Phelps;
(vii) Clear Lake;
(viii) Desert Lake;
(ix) Farmington Bay;
(x) Harold S. Crane;
(xi) Hatt's Ranch;
(xii) Howard Slough;
(xiii) Huntington;
(xiv) James Walter Fitzgerald;
(xv) Kevin Conway;
(xvi) Locomotive Springs;
(xvii) Manti Meadows;
(xviii) Mills Meadows;
(xix) Montes Creek;
(xx) Nephi;
(xxi) Ogden Bay;
(xxii) Pahvant;
(xxiv) Public Shooting Grounds;
(xxv) Redmond Marsh;
(xxvi) Richfield;
(xxvii) Roosevelt;
(xxviii) Salt Creek;
(xxix) Scott M. Matheson Wetland
Preserve;
(xxx) Steward
Lake;
(xxxi) Timpie
Springs;
(xxxii) Topaz
Slough;
(xxxiii) Utah Lake Wetland
Preserve;
(xxxiv) Vernal;
and
(xxxv) Willard Bay.
(b) the division may establish
special restrictions for Division-managed properties, such as on-leash
requirements and temporary or locational closures for dogs, and post them at
specific division properties and at Regional offices;
(c) organized events or group gatherings of
25 or more individuals that involve the use of dogs, such as dog training or
trials, that occur on Division properties may require a special use permit as
described in Rule R657-28;
(d) dog
training may be allowed in designated areas on Lee Kay Center and Willard Bay
WMA by the Division without a special use permit; and
(e) dogs are only allowed on the Nature Trail
within they Hasenyager Nature preserve, and must be on a leash.
(4) A person may train a dog on
live wild game birds provided:
(a) the dog, or
the person training the dog, may not harass, catch, capture, kill, injure, or
at any time, possess any wild game birds, except during legal hunting seasons
as provided in the Upland Game or Waterfowl proclamations of the Wildlife
Board;
(b) the use of dogs complies
with Rules R657-6. R657-9, and R657-54;
(c) the person training a dog on live wild
game birds, except during legal hunting seasons:
(i) must comply with city and county
ordinances pertaining to the discharge of any firearm; and
(ii) must obtain written permission from the
landowner for training on properly posted private property.
(5) The firearm
restrictions set forth in this section do not apply to a person licensed to
carry a concealed weapon in accordance with Section
53-5-701, et seq., provided the
person is not utilizing the concealed weapon to hunt or take
wildlife.
(6) A person may not
train dogs or otherwise harass game birds within 1/2 mile of sage-grouse or
sharp-tailed grouse leks, or other concentrations of sage-grouse or
sharp-tailed grouse from March 1 to May 31.
(7) Dogs may be used to locate upland game as
part of Division sanctioned survey efforts.
