Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 635 - DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE › Division 45 - HUNTING REGULATIONS: DEFINITIONS › Section 635-045-0002 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) "Active Military Personnel" means, for
			 the purpose of participating in the Veterans and Active Military Personnel
			 Waterfowl Hunting Day(s), members of the Armed Forces [Army, Navy, Air Force,
			 Marine Corps, and Coast Guard] on active duty, including members of the
			 National Guard and Reserves on active duty (other than for training).
(2) "Adult hunting license" is a resident or
			 nonresident hunting license, resident combination angling and hunting license,
			 disabled veteran's angling and hunting license, pioneer's angling and hunting
			 license or senior citizen's angling and hunting license.
(3) "Agricultural lands" are lands that are
			 not less than ten acres in extent that have been cultivated and planted or
			 irrigated to domestic crops that are currently in use. Isolated home gardens,
			 abandoned farmsteads, logged lands, rangelands, and tree farms, are not
			 included in this definition.
(4)
			 "Antler Point" is a point at least one inch in length measured from tip of
			 point to nearest edge of beam. This definition applies only to the three-point
			 elk and spike only elk bag limits.
(5) "Antlerless deer" means doe or fawn
			 deer.
(6) "Antlerless elk" means
			 cow or calf elk.
(7) "Application"
			 means the electronic form completed and purchased to apply for a hunt where the
			 number or distribution of hunters is limited through a public drawing or other
			 means. Mail order applications sent to the Department along with the proper
			 remittance are used to generate the electronic form.
(8) "Bait" for hunting game mammals means any
			 substance placed to attract an animal by its sense of smell or taste, including
			 but not limited to food items or minerals (such as salt). Applying a scent or
			 attractant to one's body or clothing while worn, is not baiting.
(9) "Baited Area" means an area where baiting
			 has taken place.
(10) "Baiting"
			 means the placing, exposing, depositing, distributing, or scattering of corn,
			 wheat, salt or other feed to constitute a lure or enticement to, on, or over an
			 area where hunters are attempting to take game birds.
(11) "Brace" is defined as an orthosis that
			 is prescribed by a physician and fabricated by an orthotist certified by the
			 American Board for Certification in Orthotics and Prosthetics, Inc.
(12) "Buck Deer" means a male deer with at
			 least one visible antler.
(13)
			 "Buck Pronghorn" means a male pronghorn antelope with visible horns and a dark
			 cheek patch below the ear.
(14)
			 "Bull elk" for the purposes of a bag limit definition, means a male elk with at
			 least one visible antler.
(15)
			 "Calendar year" means from January 1 through December 31.
(16) "Carcass" is the skinned or unskinned
			 body, with or without entrails, of a game bird or game mammal.
(17) "Closed season" is any time and place
			 when it is not authorized to take a specific species, sex or size of
			 wildlife.
(18) "Coast elk" means
			 any live elk occurring in the Alsea, Applegate, Chetco, Melrose, Powers, Saddle
			 Mountain, Scappoose, Siuslaw, Sixes, Stott Mountain, Tioga, Trask, Willamette,
			 and Wilson units.
(19) "Commercial
			 cervid attractant" means a marketed product that contains or is derived from
			 cervid urine and is designed for use in luring, attracting or enticing a
			 cervid.
(20) "Commission" means the
			 Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission.
(21) "Controlled hunt" is a season where the
			 number or distribution of hunters is limited through a public drawing or other
			 means.
(22) "Department" means the
			 Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
(23) "Director" means the Oregon Fish and
			 Wildlife Director.
(24) "Doe or
			 fawn pronghorn" means a female pronghorn antelope without a dark cheek patch
			 below the ear or a pronghorn fawn (young of the year) of either sex.
(25) "Domestic partner" means, as provided in
			 section 3 of the Oregon Family Fairness Act of 2007 (ORS Chapter 106), "an
			 individual who has, in person, joined into a civil contract with another
			 individual of the same sex, provided that each individual is at least 18 years
			 of age and is otherwise capable, and that at least one of the individuals is a
			 resident of Oregon."
(26) "Eastern
			 Oregon" means all counties east of the summit of the Cascade Range including
			 all of Klamath and Hood River counties.
(27) "Eastern Oregon deer" means any live
			 deer occurring east of the east boundaries of the Santiam, McKenzie, Dixon,
			 Indigo and Rogue units.
(28)
			 "Eligible Hunter" means someone who will be 12 years of age by the time they
			 hunt.
(29) "Entry permit" means a
			 permit issued by the Department to be in an area where entry is
			 restricted.
(30) "Feral Swine"
			 means animals of the genus Sus as defined by the Oregon Department of
			 Agriculture in OAR 603-010-0055.
(31) "Fiscal year" means from July 1 through
			 June 30.
(32) "Furbearers" are
			 beaver, bobcat, fisher, marten, mink, muskrat, otter, raccoon, red fox, and
			 gray fox.
(33) "Game Birds" are any
			 waterfowl, snipe, band-tailed pigeon, mourning dove, pheasant, quail,
			 partridge, grouse, or wild turkey.
(34) "Game mammals" are pronghorn antelope,
			 black bear, cougar, deer, elk, moose, Rocky Mountain goat, bighorn sheep, and
			 western gray squirrel.
(35)
			 "General season" is any season open to the holder of a valid hunting license
			 and appropriate game mammal tag without restriction as to the number of
			 participants.
(36) "Hunter
			 certification" means to have met educational, safety or other requirements
			 designated by administrative rule for participation in a hunt.
(37) "Hunt" means to take or attempt to take
			 any wildlife by means involving the use of a weapon or with the assistance of
			 any mammal or bird.
(38)
			 "Husbandry" means the care given animals directly by their owners and managers,
			 including but not limited to:
(a)
			 Nutrition;
(b) Breeding
			 program;
(c) Veterinary medical
			 care;
(d) Environmental
			 cleanliness; and
(e) Humane
			 handling.