Author: Mariah Wheeler

UTAH – Last year, a new law gave the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR) responsibility for managing the mule deer population. The goal is to assist in the recovery of declining deer populations and help maintain a healthy balance between predator and prey populations: if biologists found that too many mule deer were being killed by black bears, a predator management plan would go into effect immediately (one of the changes). Black bear management came up during a UDWR wildlife board meeting earlier this month (video below), and a new plan was approved to respond to the impacts of…

OGDEN, Utah – Inmates 70 and older at the Utah State Prison got their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Monday as part of a statewide effort to inoculate older Utahns. Meanwhile the Utah Department of Health reported 859 new cases of COVID-19 and two additional deaths Monday, numbers that continue a downward trend in the seven-day average for new positives. Medical workers administered the Moderna vaccine to 79 inmates at the prison’s Draper site starting Monday and will continue through the week. The facility houses the state’s oldest and most ill, said Utah Department of Corrections spokeswoman Kaitlin Felsted.…