Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 2 - GENERAL HUNTING REGULATION › Section 2-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
In addition to the definitions set forth in Title 23 of the
				  Wyoming Statutes, the Commission also adopts the following definitions for the
				  purpose of all hunting and trapping regulations:
(a) "Accompanied by a Mentor" means being
				directly supervised at all times by a mentor who is within sight and direct
				voice contact.
(b) "Adult" means a
				person eighteen (18) years of age or older.
(c) "Antlered" means a deer, elk or moose
				that has visible antler growth plainly protruding from the skull. Where a
				minimum number of antler points are specified, points shall be counted on the
				side with the greater number of points.
(d) "Antlerless" means a deer, elk or moose
				that has no antler growth plainly protruding from the skull. Females and
				young-of-the-year without visible antlers are antlerless big game
				animals.
(e) "Approved Landfill or
				Incinerator" means a landfill or incinerator permitted by the State of Wyoming
				Department of Environmental Quality to dispose of animal carcasses.
(f) "Artificial Light or Lighting Device"
				means any man-made light or lighting device which projects a visible light
				outside the device, or any electronic device that provides an enhanced ability
				to see in the dark.
(g) "Bag Limit"
				means the maximum number of big game or trophy game animals that may be taken
				by an individual possessing a proper license.
(h) "Buck Antelope" means male antelope with
				visible horns and a dark cheek patch at the base of the ear.
(i) "Bureau of Land Management (B.L.M.)"
				means the land management agency administered by the U.S. Department of the
				Interior.
(j) "Bureau of
				Reclamation Land" means lands administered by the U.S. Department of the
				Interior Bureau of Reclamation.
(k)
				"Calf" means young-of-the-year elk or young-of-the-year moose.
(l) "Central Flyway" means the portion of
				Wyoming east of the Continental Divide, excluding the Great Divide
				Basin.
(m) "Certificate of
				Competency and Safety in the Use and Handling of Firearms" means a
				certification issued for the completion of an approved hunter safety
				course.
(n) "Conservation Order"
				means an action to reduce the mid-continent population of light geese, which is
				promulgated in accordance with
				50 CFR
				20.21 and 50 CFR 21.60, revised as of August
				8, 2019, which does not include any later amendments or editions of the
				incorporated matter. A copy of Title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations can
				be viewed at Department Regional Offices.
(o) "Cow" means an adult female elk or an
				adult female moose.
(p) "Daily Bag
				Limit" means the maximum number of game birds or small game animals that may be
				legally taken in a single day.
(q)
				"Dark Geese" means Canada goose, cackling goose, white-fronted goose and
				brant.
(r) "Doe" means an adult
				female antelope or adult female deer.
(s) "Drainage" means all lands within the
				watershed of a named river or stream, including all tributaries and standing
				waters, which drain into that river or stream.
(t) "Edible portion of big game animal" means
				the meat from the front quarters as far down as the knees, meat from the
				hindquarters as far down as the hocks, and the meat along the backbone between
				the neck and hindquarters including the loins and tenderloins, excluding meat
				on the ribs and neck.
(u) "Ewe"
				means an adult female bighorn sheep.
(v) "Fawn" means young-of-the-year antelope
				or young-of-the-year deer.
(w)
				"Federal Duck Stamp" means Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation
				Stamp or Electronic Duck Stamp.
(x)
				"Handgun" means a firearm that has a barrel length of less than sixteen (16)
				inches, has a short stock, and is designed to be fired by the use of a single
				hand without shoulder support.
(y)
				"Hunt Area" means the area within a defined geographic boundary where a license
				shall be valid.
(z) "Irrigated
				land" means agricultural lands that are supplied with supplemental water by
				ditches, pipes, flooding or spraying.
(aa) "Lamb" means a young-of-the-year bighorn
				sheep.
(bb) "Light Geese" means
				snow goose, blue goose and Ross's goose.
(cc) "Mentee" means a person who has received
				special authorization from the Department to take wildlife and who has not
				received a certificate of competency and safety in the use and handling of
				firearms.
(dd) "Mentor" means a
				person who is at least eighteen (18) years of age, can demonstrate they have a
				certificate of competency and safety in the use and handling of firearms,
				possesses a valid Wyoming hunting license and is directly supervising not more
				than one (1) mentee, other than immediate family members, at a time while in
				the field.
(ee) "Motorized vehicle"
				means any vehicle powered by an internal combustion or electric
				engine.
(ff) "Muzzle-loading
				firearm" means a muzzle-loading rifle or muzzle-loading handgun of at least .40
				caliber and firing an expanding point bullet or lead ball and using a charge of
				at least fifty (50) grains of black powder or its equivalent.
(gg) "National Elk Refuge Permit" means a
				permit that allows a properly licensed elk hunter to access the National Elk
				Refuge to take an elk.
(hh)
				"Nontoxic Shot" means steel or any other federally approved nontoxic
				shot.
(ii) "Off National Forest"
				means lands other than those administered by the U.S. Forest Service.
(jj) "On National Forest" means
				lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service.
(kk) "On National Grassland" means the
				Thunder Basin National Grassland and Bankhead-Jones lands administered by the
				U.S. Forest Service.
(ll) "Pacific
				Flyway" means the portion of Wyoming west of the Continental Divide, including
				the Great Divide Basin.
(mm) "Park
				Permit" means a permit issued by Grand Teton National Park that allows a
				properly licensed elk hunter to take an elk within Grand Teton National
				Park.
(nn) "Partridge" means chukar
				partridge and gray partridge.
(oo)
				"Point" means any protrusion from an antler one (1) inch or more in
				length.
(pp) "Possession Limit"
				means the maximum number of game birds or small game animals that may be
				legally in possession. Wildlife in transit or storage shall be considered in
				possession. For migratory game birds, when a person hunts in more than one (1)
				state, flyway or zone, the person's total limit shall not exceed the largest
				daily bag or possession limit prescribed for any one of the states, flyways or
				zones in which the hunting takes place.
(qq) "Private Land" means all fee
				title/deeded lands owned by a private individual, partnership or
				corporation.
(rr) "Processor" means
				a custom meat processor licensed by the Wyoming Department of
				Agriculture.
(ss) "Public Road or
				Highway" (except as otherwise provided) means any roadway that is open to
				vehicular travel by the public. The road surface, the area between the fences
				on a fenced public road or highway, and an area thirty (30) feet perpendicular
				to the edge of the road surface on an unfenced public road or highway shall be
				considered the public road or highway. Two-track trails on public lands are not
				public roads.
(tt) "Ram" means a
				male bighorn sheep that is one (1) year or older.
(uu) "Real Time Video Photography Equipment"
				means any video or photography equipment capable of utilizing cellular or Wi-Fi
				technology to transmit images or video for remote viewing.
(vv) "Regular Hunting Seasons" mean seasons
				which delineate the dates and hunt areas for the taking of big game or trophy
				game animals with legal weapons in accordance with the license types and
				limitations as set forth in Section
				2 of Chapters 5 (Antelope), 6 (Deer), 7
				(Elk), 8 (Moose); Sections
				3 and
				7 of Chapter 9 (Bighorn Sheep and Mountain
				Goat); Section
				9 of Chapter 3 (Black Bear); Section
				3 of Chapter 42 (Mountain Lion); and Section
				4 of Chapter 47 (Gray Wolf) of the
				Commission regulations.
(ww)
				"Season Limit" means the maximum number of sandhill cranes or pheasants that
				may be legally taken during the entire season.
(xx) "Site of the Kill" means the location
				where the harvested animal died.
(yy) "Special Archery Seasons" mean seasons
				that delineate the dates and hunt areas for the taking of big game or trophy
				game animals with legal archery equipment, in which a hunter with the proper
				hunting license and an archery license may hunt in addition to the regular
				hunting seasons in accordance with the limitations as set forth in Section
				2 of Chapters 5 (Antelope), 6 (Deer), 7
				(Elk), 8 (Moose); Sections
				3 and
				7 of Chapter 9 (Bighorn Sheep and Mountain
				Goat); and Section
				9 of Chapter 3 (Black Bear).
(zz) "Spike Elk" means an elk with at least
				one (1) antler consisting of a single unbranched beam.
(aaa) "State Trust Land" or "State Land"
				means lands administered by the Office of State Land and Investments.
(bbb) "Type" means a limitation on a license
				in a particular hunt area for the sex of animal, the species of animal, the
				length of the season, the type of weapon or a portion of the hunt area in which
				the license shall be valid.
(ccc)
				"Upland Game Birds" means any sage grouse, blue grouse, ruffed grouse,
				partridge, sharp-tailed grouse or pheasant.
(ddd) "Waste" means to leave, abandon or
				allow any edible portion of meat from a big game animal, game bird, game fish
				or small game animal to become tainted, rotten or otherwise unfit for human
				consumption prior to processing at a person's home or at a processor.
(eee) "Waterfowl" means ducks, geese, coots
				and mergansers.