SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — With Thanksgiving quickly approaching, some Utahns might be interested in skipping out on the grocery store and hunting their own wild turkey. Here's what you need to know if you want to bag a turkey.

While the main hunting season for turkeys is in spring, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) offers a limited number of fall permits to hunt wild turkeys. These permits are part of fall management, meaning that they're in place to help reduce the number of "nuisance situations" in some counties.

Every year, DWR works with biologists to calculate how many fall permits should be available based on the population and nuisance situations in Utah. Each hunter may purchase up to three fall management permits: two for beardless turkeys and one for either sex of tur

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