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Another dry year: Drought affects agriculture, recreation, and hydropower

Last week, Utah State University hosted a webinar for natural resource professionals to discuss a drought reporting network called “Condition Monitoring Observer Reports.” Through a mobile app, Utah citizens can document drought impacts and submit their observations to a database used by state and university drought researchers and scientists. The data can help give scientists a more qualitative, detailed understanding of on-the-ground conditions and impacts of drought. Are farmers’ crops, or ranchers’ grazing areas, being affected? Are recreation areas changing? Photographs showing a location in a wet year and later in a dry year can give helpful comparative references. Details like these, giving a fuller picture of what it means to be in a condition of drought, are increasingly important to scientists, policy-makers, and citizens of the Southwest as we grapple with the ongoing dry conditions. On March 17, Utah Governor Spencer Cox declared Utah to be in a state

Number of general-season permits for 2021 deer hunt decreased

On Thursday, the Utah Wildlife Board approved a decrease in the number of general-season permits for the 2021 deer hunt. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources said in a press release the reason behind the decision came down to the populations of deer in the state. The current management plan includes objectives to have just over 400 thousand deer across Utah, with an estimated 314,850 deer currently in the state, according to the DWR.

How severe droughts have factored into a decline in Utah s deer population

SALT LAKE CITY Utah is a desert, a fact that comes with one key ecological truth: It s not uncommon to find dry conditions. More often than not, we are in drought, or some level of drought, and the severity just varies between year to year, said Kent Hersey, a state wildlife biologist. But the droughts at the start of the decade are nothing like droughts seen in 2018 and the current conditions in Utah. The state experienced its driest year on record in terms of precipitation totals in 2020, and soil levels are the driest they ve ever been recorded. Gov. Spencer Cox issued an emergency declaration last month over the state s water conditions. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Drought Monitor made no changes to the state s drought conditions in its weekly Thursday update. It lists 90% of Utah in at least extreme drought conditions with over half of the state in an exceptional drought, which is the direst category.

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