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I just wanted to post and make sure that everyone is making a little sacrafice and using common sense for the preservation of shed hunting. When you drive to an area stay on the main roads. If you see any signs on barbed wire fences within 5 miles of where you intend to hike make sure you pull off the road to read them. Most of these signs will indicate that an area is closed to motoryzed vehicles for a specific time period. Please respect these closures to motoryzed vehicles and walk in on foot. When snow completely blankets an area including feed DO NOT SHED HUNT at all. wait until there is at least 70% of the ground open. Optimal times to pick up brown sheds are when the snow has receded anyways. If you leave deer alone in heavy snow they tend to herd up in bachleor herds and shed in concentrated areas simplifying your objective of finding antlers.
So for your own benefit avoid shed hunting until conditions are optimal and the ground has thawed. Respect BLM land closures to motoryzed vehicles and keep your distance from wildgame. If you absolutely want to find antlers go where the snow is partial. Southern Utah has an abundance of deer that winter in locations where it never snows.
Obtain a land responsibilites map in the Salt Lake DNR office for 35.00. This map will show you the entire state of Utah in great detail where you can and where you cannot hike. Productive areas can be found statewide. Recomendations: Pinevalley, Kanab,Southeastern Utah along lake Powell.
So for your own benefit avoid shed hunting until conditions are optimal and the ground has thawed. Respect BLM land closures to motoryzed vehicles and keep your distance from wildgame. If you absolutely want to find antlers go where the snow is partial. Southern Utah has an abundance of deer that winter in locations where it never snows.
