Helping Utah’s deer population is a focus each year by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, including habitat projects in the northeastern part of the state. For example, the completed projects with the Utah Mule Deer Statewide Management Plan have included acquiring land for deer and other wildlife and watershed improvements. “In 2025, the DWR acquired a total of 4,488 acres for deer and other wildlife. The new Cook Wildlife Management Area, located in Daggett County, provides 1,600 acres of important summer habitat for deer and other big game animals in the area…[The] Willow Watershed improvements project in the Book Cliffs area of Uintah County was an ongoing multiyear project that helped provide additional feed and improved the streambed in the area. Habitat-restoration crews removed trees that were crowding out other more-beneficial plants, reseeded the area and worked to maintain and build new beaver dam analog structures to help reduce erosion in Willow and Meadow creeks.” To learn about more habitat projects across the state, visit wildlife.utah.gov/news.
