Utah big game scouting
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Bulls in the header: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain.
Pick a species, a unit, and a hunt, then click Run this unit. The table lists up to ten areas inside that boundary, kept at least 8 km apart. Rank comes from elevation, slope, aspect, cover, distance to water, and National Forest. A coordinate marks an area to look, not an animal.
The harvest year only changes the harvest note on units that have a loaded report. It does not choose the spots. Every species uses this same index. General tags are over the counter. Limited entry is a draw.
Data sources: Utah DWR hunt boundaries for the unit line and hunt codes. USGS 3DEP for elevation, slope, and aspect. USGS National Hydrography Dataset for mapped streams. MRLC National Land Cover Database (2021) for cover. U.S. Forest Service boundaries for National Forest. NASA POWER for the season moisture compared with a baseline. NRCS SNOTEL for a nearby snow and soil station when one is close. National Weather Service for the current observation and the short forecast.
Run this unit fills the table with up to ten places inside the boundary, kept at least 8 km apart. A coordinate is an area to start looking. It is not an animal, and it is not a promise that the ground is legal to hunt.
Hunt unit is the unit you ran. Latitude / longitude is the point. Google Earth opens that same point. Moisture is the season read for the unit, so it is the same on every row. It comes from NASA POWER and does not change the rank. Species is the animal on the hunt you picked.
Ground is the habitat index: a score from 0 to 1, then elevation, slope, cover, distance to a mapped stream, and whether the point is on National Forest. Higher scores match the index more closely. Start with those, open them in Earth and on the satellite map, then check roads, access, and the season yourself.
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