You soon won’t need a hunting or fishing license to access more than two dozen Utah wildlife management areas along the Wasatch Front, but you’ll have to watch an educational video about their importance.
Utah legislators passed HB30 during the final week of the legislative session, which removes the license requirement for people entering management areas in Davis, Salt Lake, Utah and Weber counties that lawmakers established in a bill last year. It instead requires a digital verification that someone has watched a short educational video before entering one of the areas, and creates a new fund that pays for improvements to the public land.
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources plans to have the video and new rules for accessing wildlife management areas by July 1, which is when the new law goes into effect, said Faith Heaton Jolley, a spokeswoman for the agency. The old rule will remain in place until then…