Utah Outfitters Liscense?

[liontracker]

Do you guys have to have an outfitters liscense to guide lion hunters in Utah?

[wac and stack]

The state just past a new law, that says you are going to need one in the future. If you are guideing on pubic land you need to get a special use permit.

[Ike]

http://le.utah.gov/~2009/htmdoc/hbillhtm/HB0173.htm

http://le.utah.gov/~2009/htmdoc/hbillhtm/HB0153.htm

Yes, it looks like they passed that outfitter's/guide bill and it appears to have been signed into law. While I was looking around I saw where our state amended the criminal trespass law which only talked about crop land and extended it to private rangeland--a class B misdemeanor with a $500 fine. I swear it's about time to get out of hounds with the patch work of private, public and tribal lands a person has to deal with. It just doesn't give a person much running room any more.

ike

[ol'guy]

Food for thought, if I was walking across a piece of land not knowing lines land owner has me arrested for trespass who is to say it is his land,"Him" not with out clear markings or him getting it survayed I'm not taking his word {da} prove it.

[sheimer]

ol'guy - It's "food for thought" like that that has gotten more private land than any other single thing closed down. People that do not respect private property cause us as a group to lose more land to use every year. If everyone had that perspective, none of us would get to hunt on any private land. If you don't know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are where you should be, you shouldn't be there. There are land ownership maps available at your county courthouse and they all have longitute and latitude markings on them. Transfer them to your GPS and you will know where you can and cannot go. It is your responsibility to know the lines, not have someone prove where they are.

I don't mean to pick a fight, I just was raised with a lot of respect for the landowner.

Scott

[liontracker]

Here in Colorado, it is a state law that the hunter has to know where he is at all times.
Otherwise it is illegal tresspass. Does not matter if it is posted or fenced.