Cattle farming has a lot of risk for the farmer. Farmers put hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line every year in hopes that they will live through the dryest summers and coldest winters. They also have to survive predators that follow cattle drives in hopes of catching an easy meal.
My uncle is a very successful cattle farmer and uses trail cameras to help watch over his herds of cows. In many cases, he has caught bears, mountain lions, and coyotes following huge herds of cows and picking off the calves that he tries to raise. With these trail cameras, he can know what time these preditors are coming into the same area as his livestock and can be there when they come to either kill them or scare them off and save his cows from a terrible death or mutilation.
Utahs Trail Camera Ban
Utah has almost passed a law that is requiring the Utah wildlife board to make trail camera regulations. These regulations we believe will be to put a season on trail camera use as the bill was originally was written to do. That season would start on January 1st of every year and end on August 1st of every year. Unless you set these cameras up on private property, then you are able to have them up all year.
Most cattle drives that my uncle is a part of start after August 1st. This would mean that the use of trail cameras would be illegal for him to use to help protect his cattle. In essence, this law would ban him from using security cameras because most cattle drives are on public property. The ability to set up trail cameras and monitor the local wildlife in the area that his cows are has saved him thousands of dollars in the end.
