Apply for a Cougar Hunting Permit

Applications accepted until Oct. 6

If you want to hunt cougars on limited entry units in Utah this season, you need to get your application in soon.

Applications must be received at www.wildlife.utah.gov no later than 11 p.m. on Oct. 6.

If you need help completing your application, please call (801) 538-4700 no later than 6 p.m. on Oct. 6.

You’ll be applying for a limited entry cougar permit. Permits to hunt on Utah’s harvest objective units go on sale Nov. 6.

“If you draw a limited entry permit, you cannot buy a permit to hunt on a harvest objective unit,” says Judi Tutorow, wildlife licensing coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources. “Before you apply for a limited entry permit, make sure a limited entry hunt is the hunt you want to participate in.”

More information about the two permits is available in the 2008 - 2009 Utah Cougar Guidebook. The guidebook is available at www.wildlife.utah.gov/guidebooks.

The guidebook is also available at DWR offices and from hunting license agents across Utah.

If you have questions about hunting cougars in Utah, please call the nearest Division of Wildlife Resources office. You can also call the DWR’s Salt Lake City office at (801) 538-4700.