New poaching numbers released by DWR
The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has released startling new numbers about poaching from last year.
In all, more than one-thousand animals were illegally killed in 2019.
DWR estimates the combined value of the wildlife killed was more than 386-thousand dollars.
Last year, DWR issued 526 citations for poaching and illegal hunting.
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