Utah’s massive Pole Creek and Bald Mountain fires are out, but hunters are now getting burned after U.S. Forest Service officials extended closures for a special big game unit.
Citing public safety concerns regarding falling trees and debris flows, the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest decided to keep some burned areas in the southern Wasatch Mountains beyond the remainder of Utah’s rifle season.
For many hunters holding cow-elk and mule-deer permits, the move nixes their hunting season and renders their hard-won tags worthless, fumed Springville hunter Spencer Duncan, a popular outdoors blogger.
“We spent three years buying the points [for the drawing].