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The DWR in Utah allows using salt and other minerals for trail camera census and hunting. The Forest Service and BLM in Utah allow it on public land...it is the various weeds and uncertified hay that are illegal to take on the mountain.
Deer and elk need sodium and the 90 other balanced macro and micro minerals in their body to function properly. If they can't get it all from eating browse and grasses grown in minerally rich soils, they will seek out natural mineral licks if they can find them. Some of the major cities in the US were settled because there was a big natural mineral deposit that the wildlife were using. Placing salt and mineral licks on the mountain will get activity on it as the deer and elk are seeking it to balance their systems, especially when growing antler, fawning or calving, and when it is hot. Water and unrefined sodium chloride with its natural trace minerals in it is just as critical in their health as the browse they eat.
You may want to learn and understand the differences between refined salt and unrefined salt and why one would want to use unrefined salt in their body, there is lots of info on the net about it for humans. It's all pretty much the same for all other land animals as well.
Refined salt isn't that healthy for man and animal...it's had chemicals added to it to drop out all the mineral so they can be sold in other more lucrative mineral industries, it's had bleach to make it white so it looks super clean on the shelf, it's had flow agents and anti-caking chemicals (mag chloride) added to it so it doesn't set up hard, it's been heated too hot and dried so it doesn't set up hard once again and the crystalization of the salt changes properties from the intense heat. All these man made changes in refining it ruins it. It's not a healthy natural product that is easy for the body to break down and use anymore.
The much healthier unrefined salts like "RealSalt" and "Celtic Salt" are becoming more and more common on dinner tables all over the world. This form has all the trace mineral in it and the body can function so much better with it in this natural state.
FYI...almost every agricultural mineral pressed block you buy at a feed store and all the deer mineral supplement/attractant on the market today are made with this same refined proccessed salt. Deer and elk will still lick it for the sodium and added mineral in it by man,if that's their "only" choice on the mountain. However, if you give deer and elk the choice they will lick Trophy Rock over the refined proccessed man made salt blocks.
In time Trophy Rock users are seeing healthier bucks and bulls with more impressive racks and these are often usersa who once bought ag blocks or crushed bags and scattered it in the dirt and put up their trail cameras over it. They see the difference in the deer and elk and know it's better. They get more photos over it too.
You guys may want to go to our website
http://www.trophyrock.com. We are one of the very few on the market that sell a product that is an all natural unrefined mined product with over 50+ natural micro and macro minerals in it. Trophy Rock is a super popular year round mineral supplement in the East with Whitetail, it's catching on in the West. We just haven't marketed/advertised enough out here in the West to get the word out yet. If you only knew some of the Utah hunters that are getting super success with trail cameras over Trophy Rock. One of our 2008 trail contest winners on our website was submitted by a Trophy Rock user, it's the famous 400+ "Snake Bull" from Elk Ridge licking Trophy Rock...this bad bull is still alive!
We have over 3000+ dealers and sold over 250,000 rocks last year all over the U.S.. Go to Cabelas or Bass Pro and read hunter all the reviews on Trophy Rock. Visit our website trail camera contest galleries or our ELk and Mule deer photo sections and see natural Trophy Rock in the field.
Try the Trophy Rock Challenge...take any man made mineral block or bag and place it next to Trophy Rock on the mountain, you will see what the deer,elk,antelope,moose and wild sheep prefer. They go for the Trophy Rock with all the various macro and micro mineral in it. They will step right over a refined pressed salt block or bag loose salt spread in the dirt if there is Trophy Rock present. They know!
