Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 23 - LANDS AND WATERS ACQUIRED OR ADMINISTERED BY THE WYOMING GAME AND FISH COMMISSION › Section 23-3 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
Definitions shall be as set forth in Title 23, Wyoming
				  Statutes, W. S. § 31-1-101, Commission regulations and the Commission also
				  adopts the following definitions:
(a)
				"Acceptably stored" means stored in an Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee
				(IGBC) approved food storage container; stored in a bear-resistant container;
				stored in a closed vehicle constructed of solid non-pliable materials;
				suspended at least ten (10) feet clear of the ground and all points; or stored
				within Department provided containers.
(b) "Antiquities" means prehistoric ruins and
				artifacts.
(c) "Camp" means to
				establish temporary occupancy by means of motor vehicles, camp trailers,
				campers, horse trailers, tents, lean-tos, other man-made structures or sleeping
				equipment.
(d) "Commercial or
				business use" means those activities that involve the direct sale of
				commodities or services on lands and waters acquired or administered by the
				Commission.
(e) "Conservation
				easement" means a voluntary legal agreement between a landowner and the
				Commission to conserve wildlife habitat and traditional farm and ranch uses
				where conserving those uses supports wildlife habitat.
(f) "Department publication" means any
				document publicly circulated by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department in the
				form of a magazine, pamphlet, poster, brochure, letter or broadcast online by
				website, E-mail or other electronic media.
(g) "Designated road" means an established
				road marked with a white arrow sign.
(h) "Established road" means any road or
				trail that has been graded or constructed to carry motor vehicles or on which
				repeated legal motor vehicle traffic has created well-defined tracks.
(i) "High-lined" means to tether recreational
				livestock in such a manner the livestock cannot forage for natural vegetation
				and the livestock are not tethered to a single tree.
(j) "Human presence" means a person
				physically occupying, entering upon or traveling upon lands or waters acquired
				or administered by the Commission.
(k) "Lands and waters acquired or
				administered" means lands and waters acquired by the Commission by purchase,
				deed, lease, agreement, gift or devise for the management, restoration,
				propagation or protection of wildlife or for public hunting, fishing or
				trapping or for the conservation of wildlife habitat or traditional farm and
				ranch uses where conserving those uses supports wildlife habitat or traditional
				farm and ranch uses.
(l) "Lands
				enrolled in the Department's Access Yes Program" means lands and waters in any
				of the Department's access programs, including but not limited to Walk-In
				Areas, Hunter Management Areas, Hunter Management Access Programs or Fish
				Management Areas. The Commission administers these lands through written
				agreements of up to five (5) years to provide managed public access for hunting
				or fishing. Commission owned lands may be included to provide managed public
				access.
(m) "Limited range weapons"
				means muzzle-loading firearms, shotguns, archery equipment, handguns or air
				rifles.
(n) "Motor vehicle" means
				any motor vehicle as defined in Wyoming Statute Title 31-1-101 (a)(xv)
				including but not limited to a motor home, motorcycle, passenger car, truck,
				electric bike, off-road recreational vehicle and multipurpose
				vehicle.
(o) "Off-road recreational
				vehicle" means any wheeled or tracked motorized vehicle designed primarily for
				off-road, recreational or cross country travel on or over land, snow, ice or
				other natural terrain regardless of ORV permit or registration/license
				status.
(p) "Open fire" means any
				outdoor fire including wood stoves and charcoal fires used for warmth, cooking,
				pleasure or for any other purpose.
(q) "Permission slip" means any document
				produced by the Department authorizing the use of lands enrolled in the
				Department Access Yes Program.
(r)
				"Public use" means any non-commercial use by the public on lands and waters
				acquired or administered by the Commission. Public use shall be determined by
				the Department and shall be consistent with the Commission's goal to enhance or
				manage wildlife, wildlife habitat or access and shall not conflict with the
				purpose for which lands and waters were acquired or are administered.
(s) "Recreational livestock" means animals
				used for recreational purposes such as for riding, pulling wagons or sleighs,
				or packing of gear and harvested animals.
(t) "Recreational shooting" means shooting
				firearms that does not involve the taking of wildlife.
(u) "Special use" means any activity that is
				not defined as public use or any use that could conflict with the purpose for
				which the land or water was acquired or is administered by the
				Commission.
(v) "Trapping" means
				the taking of a furbearing animal or a predatory animal by the use of a trap or
				snare.
(w) "Water control
				structure" means a structure in an irrigation, drainage or other water
				management system that conveys water, controls direction or rate of flow or
				maintains a desired water surface elevation. Water control structures include
				but are not limited to solar wells, delivery systems, tanks, pumps, headgates,
				stilling basins, checks, pipelines or other systems used to create or protect
				fish and wildlife habitat.
(x)
				"Wood cutting" means the felling or removal of standing trees, shrubs or woody
				plants on lands and waters acquired or administered by the
				Commission.