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(Before It's News)
Utah -(Ammoland.com)- If you enjoy hunting waterfowl or upland game in Utah, you can add something fun to your hunt while helping the birds and animals you pursue.
This fall, the Division of Wildlife Resources is offering nine Waterfowl Slams and seven Upland Game Slams.
If you complete a waterfowl slam, you’ll receive a colorful Waterfowl Slam leg band, perfect for hanging on a lanyard. Complete an upland game slam, and you’ll receive a colorful Upland Game Slam “coin.” Each coin, which is laser engraved with the slam details, looks like the brass end of a shotgun shell.
Every time you complete a slam, you’ll receive a different leg band or coin. In addition, if you sign up for the Waterfowl Slam, you’ll receive a leg band for taking your first duck, goose or swan of the 2015–2016 season. And your name will be entered in a drawing for prizes that include decoys, hunting apparel and cooking equipment.
The cost to participate in the Upland Game Slam program or the Waterfowl Slam program is $10 for those 17 years of age and younger, and $20 for adults. You can also participate in both programs by paying the registration fee for each.
You can learn more about the Waterfowl Slam at wildlife.utah.gov/slam. Upland Game Slam details are available at wildlife.utah.gov/uplandslam.
Have fun while giving back
Blair Stringham, migratory game bird coordinator for the DWR, and Avery Cook, upland game project leader for the DWR, say there are several reasons the DWR and a long list of co-sponsors are offering the slams. Creating more interest in waterfowl and upland game hunting, and raising funds to help conserve waterfowl and upland game in Utah, are among them.
“The slams are a win-win for everyone,” Cook says. “Hunters win through giving back to the resource while adding something fun to their hunt. Upland game and waterfowl populations win through the funding hunters provide. Almost all of the funding…