Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 67 - GRIZZLY BEAR MANAGEMENT REGULATION › Section 67-3 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
Definition shall be as set forth in Title 23, Wyoming
				  Statutes, Commission Regulations, and the Commission also adopts the following
				  definitions:
(a) "Demographic
				Monitoring Area" (DMA) means the area that includes approximately 19,279 mi2 in
				area as depicted in the map in Appendix I where recovery must be demonstrated
				for Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears. The DMA was developed by the
				Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team as the area within which the Greater
				Yellowstone Ecosystem population is monitored, where population estimates are
				derived and within which the total mortality limits will apply.
(b) "Dependent young" means any cub of the
				year or yearling grizzly bear, or any grizzly bear offspring traveling with an
				adult female grizzly bear.
(c)
				"Discretionary Mortality" means human-caused grizzly bear mortality over which
				the Department has control and authority.
(d) "Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem" (GYE)
				means the geographic area which includes the Yellowstone Plateau and fourteen
				(14) contiguous mountain ranges at or above approximately 5,000ft elevation and
				contains the headwaters of the Missouri-Mississippi, Snake-Columbia and
				Green-Colorado river systems. In Wyoming, the GYE includes the Yellowstone
				Plateau and the Absaroka, Beartooth, Gros Ventre, Wind River, Wyoming and Teton
				Mountain Ranges, and the headwaters of the Yellowstone, Snake, Wind and Green
				Rivers.
(e) "Distinct Population
				Segment" (DPS) means that portion of Idaho east of Interstate Highway 15 and
				north of U.S. Highway 30; that portion of Montana east of Interstate Highway 15
				and south of Interstate Highway 90; that portion of Wyoming south/southwest of
				Interstate Highway 90, west of Interstate Highway 25, Wyoming State Highway
				220, and U.S. Highway 287 south of Three Forks (at the intersection of U.S.
				Highways 220 and 287 ), and north of Interstate Highway 80 and U.S. Highway 30
				as depicted in the map in Appendix I. The DPS is specific to the GYE grizzly
				bear population. Grizzly bears that occur within the DPS outside of the
				National Park System and Wind River Reservation are managed under Commission
				authority.
(f) "Interagency Grizzly
				Bear Study Team" (IGBST) means the interdisciplinary group of scientists and
				biologists responsible for long-term monitoring and research efforts on grizzly
				bears in the GYE. The IGBST contains representatives from the U.S. Geological
				Survey, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest
				Service, the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapahoe Tribal Fish and Game
				Department, and the states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
(g) "Management Plan" means the Wyoming
				Grizzly Bear Management Plan approved by the Commission May 11, 2016.
(h) "Non-discretionary Mortality" means
				grizzly bear mortalities over which the Department has no control, including
				but not limited to, natural mortality, illegal take, defense-of-human-life and
				vehicle collisions.
(j) "Tri-State
				MOA" means the Memorandum of Agreement between Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming that
				establishes coordinated management of the GYE grizzly bear
				population.