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…