Xplore Utah

A veteran of Utah’s angling waters has been named the top official overseeing fishing in the state.
Roger Wilson, a fisheries biologist with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, was recently chosen to lead the agency’s Aquatic Section.
Wilson, a resident of Coalville, replaces Walt Donaldson, who recently retired.
He says the agency’s Aquatic Section and the agency itself are
facing some challenges, including funding challenges, “but I know we can work through these challenges and continue to provide Utah’s anglers with great fishing.”
Wilson’s career with the DWR started in 1978 when he was hired as the agency’s high mountain lakes fisheries biologist. In 1991, he became the lead aquatic biologist at Strawberry Reservoir. Then, in 2006, he came to the DWR’s Salt Lake City office to serve as the agency’s sportfish coordinator.