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Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 11 - UPLAND GAME BIRD AND SMALL GAME HUNTING SEASONS › Section 11-8 - Small Game Hunting Seasons

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Small Game
				Species, Seasons Dates, Bag Limits and Limitations.
Species
Season
							 Dates
Bag limit
Limitations
Opens
Closes
Daily
Possession
Cottontail Rabbit
Sep. 1
Mar. 31
10
20
Any cottontail rabbit
Snowshoe Hare
Sep. 1
Mar. 31
4
8
Any snowshoe hare
Red, Grey and Fox Squirrel
Sep. 1
Mar. 31
10
20
Any red, grey or fox squirrel
(i) Small Game
				Hunt Area Description.
Area 1.
The entire state of
				  Wyoming.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 11 - UPLAND GAME BIRD AND SMALL GAME HUNTING SEASONS › Section 11-9 - Archery Regulations

Current through July 13, 2024
Upland game birds and small game may be taken with archery
				  equipment in accordance with limitations set forth in this
				  Chapter.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 11 - UPLAND GAME BIRD AND SMALL GAME HUNTING SEASONS › Section 11-10 - Upland Game Bird and Small Game Falconry Seasons

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Upland game
				birds may be taken with falcons in accordance with Section
				3 of this Chapter. Persons hunting with
				falcons may take any pheasant.
(b)
				The falconry season shall open September 1 and close March 1 in those open hunt
				areas listed in Section
				3 of this Chapter and subject to the
				closures listed in Subsection
				10(c) of this
				Chapter.
(c) Closed Areas.
Pheasant Hunt
							 Area
Limitations
8, 9
Closed to falconry hunting
Also refer to closed areas in Section
				  3.
(d) The daily bag and possession limits for
				upland game birds other than sage grouse, shall be as set forth in Section
				3 of this Chapter. The daily bag limit
				shall be one (1) sage grouse and the possession limit shall be two (2) sage
				grouse.
(e) Persons taking sage
				grouse with falcons shall respond to Department surveys not later than May 1,
				2025 requesting harvest information for the period September 1, 2024 through
				March 1, 2025.
(f) Small game
				animals may be taken with falcons in accordance with the open seasons in the
				table below.
Species
Falconry Season
							 Dates
Bag limit
Limitations
Opens
Closes
Daily
Possession
Cottontail Rabbit
Sep. 1
Mar. 1
10
20
Any cottontail rabbit
Mar. 2
Aug. 31
1
2
Any cottontail rabbit
Snowshoe Hare
Sep. 1
Mar. 1
10
20
Any snowshoe hare
Mar. 2
Aug. 31
1
2
Any snowshoe hare
Red, Grey and Fox Squirrel
Sep. 1
Mar. 1
10
20
Any red, grey or fox squirrel
Mar. 2
Aug. 31
1
2
Any red, grey or fox squirrel
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 14 - MIGRATORY GAME BIRD HUNTING SEASONS AND LIGHT GOOSE CONSERVATION ORDER › Section 14-1 - Authority

Current through July 13, 2024
This regulation is promulgated by authority of Wyoming
				  Statutes §
									23-1-302 and §
									23-2-105.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 14 - MIGRATORY GAME BIRD HUNTING SEASONS AND LIGHT GOOSE CONSERVATION ORDER › Section 14-3 - Description of Closed Areas

Current through July 13, 2024
The areas described in this Section shall be closed for the
				  species and dates specified in the tables in Sections
				  2,
				  5 and
				  7.
(a) Goshen County
(i) Hawk Springs Reservoir. Beginning where
				the east fence of the Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way meets the south fence
				enclosing Hawk Springs Reservoir; due east along said fence to Goshen County
				Road 51; northerly along said road to the access road to the northeast dam of
				the reservoir; southwesterly along said road to the northeast dam and the fence
				enclosing the reservoir; northwesterly along said fence to the second gate;
				southwesterly from said gate to the northwest corner of the fence enclosing the
				reservoir; southerly along said fence to the beginning point.
(ii) Springer Reservoir. Beginning on U.S.
				Highway 85 at the George Marlatt farmhouse; westerly along the fence between
				the farm land and the pasture land to the west end of the west pump lake and
				Bump-Sullivan Ditch; southerly along said ditch to the high-water mark of
				Springer Reservoir; westerly then southerly along the high-water mark to the
				Wyoming Game and Fish Department's Springer Wildlife Habitat Management Area
				(WHMA); westerly then southerly along the Springer WHMA boundary to Parking
				Area 3; southeasterly along the reservoir access road to the Wyoming Game and
				Fish Department buildings; due south from said buildings across the Whispering
				Wings LLC property to the Fullmer Family Trust pasture fence; westerly along
				said fence to Goshen County Road 37; southerly along said road to Goshen County
				Road 42; easterly along said road to U.S. Highway 85; northerly along said
				highway to the Springer WHMA boundary at the Casey L. Hunter property; westerly
				then northerly along said boundary to the fence separating the Joe and Judith
				Hunter Living Trust property and the George Marlatt & Son, Inc. property;
				easterly then southerly then easterly along said fence to U.S. Highway 85;
				northerly along said highway to the George Marlatt farmhouse.
(iii) Pond No. 1 Table Mountain Wildlife
				Habitat Management Area. Pond No. l and adjacent lands as marked by colored
				signs and posts.
(iv) Miller Lake
				(Glomill Reservoir). Miller Lake and all lands within three hundred (300) yards
				of the normal high water line.
(v)
				North Platte River. That portion of the North Platte River and all lands within
				three hundred (300) yards of each bank of said river beginning one-quarter
				(1/4) mile downstream of the western-most river crossing with Wyoming Highway
				157 downstream to the eastern-most river crossing with Wyoming Highway
				157.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 14 - MIGRATORY GAME BIRD HUNTING SEASONS AND LIGHT GOOSE CONSERVATION ORDER › Section 14-4 - Shooting Hours

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Except as
				provided in Section
				4(b) and Section
				8, shooting hours for hunting all migratory
				game birds shall be from one-half (1/2) hour before sunrise until
				sunset.
(b) From November 16
				through the close of the dark goose season, daily shooting hours for dark geese
				shall end at 1:00 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays within the
				following areas: Goshen County north of Wyoming Highway 313 on the west side of
				U.S. Highway 85, and north of County Road 32 on the east side of U.S. Highway
				85.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 14 - MIGRATORY GAME BIRD HUNTING SEASONS AND LIGHT GOOSE CONSERVATION ORDER › Section 14-5 - Falconry Seasons

Current through July 13, 2024
Migratory game birds may be taken by the use of trained
				  raptors in the possession of properly licensed falconers during the regular
				  hunting season set forth in Section
				  2 and extended falconry seasons in
				  accordance with the limitations in this Section, Section
				  2, Section
				  3 and Section
				  4. Licensed adult falconers are allowed to
				  hunt by falconry methods during the special hunting days for youths, veterans
				  and active military personnel set forth in Section
				  2 (j).
(a) Falconry Bag and Possession Limits. The
				daily bag limit shall not exceed three (3) migratory game birds in the
				aggregate nor shall the possession limit exceed nine (9) migratory game birds
				in the aggregate for falconry during the regular hunting season or extended
				falconry seasons. The daily bag and possession limits, singly or in the
				aggregate, may include any species and sex of ducks, geese, coots, mergansers,
				rail, snipe, mourning doves and sandhill crane when seasons for these species
				are open. No more than one (1) sandhill crane shall be taken under a limited
				quota sandhill crane permit. The falconry bag and possession limits are not in
				addition to the bag and possession limits listed in Section
				2.
EXTENDED FALCONRY SEASONS
Species and Hunt
							 Areas
Extended Season
							 Dates
Closed Areas Section
							 3 Subsections
AGGREGATE
Bag Limit
Opens
Closes
Daily
Possession
Mourning Doves -Statewide
Nov. 30
Dec. 16
b, d, e
a - after Nov. 15
c - after Nov. 14
3
9
Sora Rail and Virginia Rail -
							 Statewide
Nov. 10
Dec. 16
ZONE C1 and C1A
Central Flyway - Ducks, Mergansers and
							 Coots
Oct. 14
Oct. 21
b
3
9
ZONE C2
Central Flyway - Ducks, Mergansers and
							 Coots
Sep. 16
Sep. 20
Dec. 2
Dec. 4
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 14 - MIGRATORY GAME BIRD HUNTING SEASONS AND LIGHT GOOSE CONSERVATION ORDER › Section 14-6 - Bump-Sullivan Managed Goose Hunt

Current through July 13, 2024
Nineteen (19) numbered pits/blinds shall be available each
				  day during the dark goose hunting season and shall be occupied on a first-come,
				  first-served basis within the Bump-Sullivan Managed Goose Hunt Area in Goshen
				  County. From November 16, 2024 through February 16, 2025, hunting during dark
				  goose shooting hours shall only be allowed from pits/blinds or within fifty
				  (50) yards of the pits/blinds.
(a)
				Selection of pits/ blinds. Hunters and hunting parties shall occupy pits/blinds
				by parking one vehicle directly in front of the numbered post that is marked
				with the corresponding number of the pit/blind. Vehicles shall not be parked
				overnight to reserve a pit/blind. Vehicles shall also not be parked in front of
				a numbered post of a pit/blind other than the one the hunting party is
				occupying. Hunters shall not change pits/blinds except by returning to the
				parking area and moving their vehicle to the numbered post corresponding to the
				new pit/blind.
(b) Access to
				pits/blinds. Hunters shall only park in established parking areas. No more than
				two (2) vehicles per pit/blind shall be allowed in the parking lots. No person
				shall drive a vehicle beyond the established parking areas during the goose and
				duck hunting seasons, except for Department administrative access. Hunters may
				only use non-motorized methods to transport decoys and other gear to and from
				the pit/blind.
(c) Commercial
				operations. No person shall conduct a commercially guided or outfitted hunt on
				the Bump-Sullivan Managed Goose Hunt Area.
(d) Bump-Sullivan Managed Goose Hunt Area
				boundary description. The Bump-Sullivan Managed Goose Hunt Area shall include
				the portion of the Springer/Bump Sullivan Wildlife Habitat Management Area
				(WHMA) located west of Goshen County Road 37 (Bump-Sullivan Reservoir and
				adjacent Commission owned lands); the portion of the Springer/Bump Sullivan
				WHMA located south of Goshen County Road 42; and the portion of the
				Springer/Bump Sullivan WHMA located between County Road 37 and the closed area
				boundary.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 14 - MIGRATORY GAME BIRD HUNTING SEASONS AND LIGHT GOOSE CONSERVATION ORDER › Section 14-7 - Light Goose Conservation Order

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Licensing,
				Permitting and Reporting Requirements.
(i)
				Wyoming Game Bird License and Conservation Stamp. Each person who takes or
				attempts to take any light geese under the authority of this regulation shall
				have in possession a valid Wyoming game bird license and a valid Wyoming
				conservation stamp (except as otherwise exempted by State statute).
(ii) Conservation Order Special Management
				Permit. A Conservation Order Special Management Permit shall be in possession
				of any person participating in the light goose conservation order. The
				Conservation Order Special Management Permit shall be validated by signing the
				person's name in ink across the face of the permit. Conservation Order Special
				Management Permits may be purchased through the Department's ELS.
(iii) Reporting Requirements. Any person who
				obtains a Conservation Order Special Management Permit will be emailed an
				online harvest survey. Permit holders are requested to accurately complete the
				survey at that time.
(iv) Hunters
				are not required to possess a Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation
				Stamp (duck stamp) or Harvest Information Program (HIP) Permit in order to
				participate in the light goose conservation order.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 14 - MIGRATORY GAME BIRD HUNTING SEASONS AND LIGHT GOOSE CONSERVATION ORDER › Section 14-8 - Light Goose Conservation Order Shooting Hours

Current through July 13, 2024
Shooting hours for taking light geese during the light goose
				  conservation order shall be from one-half (1/2) hour before sunrise until
				  one-half (1/2) hour after sunset.
WYOMING GAME AND FISH COMMISSION
By: ________________________________
Richard Ladwig, President
Dated: April 16, 2024
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 15 - WILD BISON RECREATIONAL HUNTING SEASON › Section 15-1 - Authority

Current through July 13, 2024
This regulation is promulgated by authority of Wyoming
				  Statutes §
									23-1-101, §
									23-1-302 and §
									23-2-107.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 15 - WILD BISON RECREATIONAL HUNTING SEASON › Section 15-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
In addition to the definitions set forth in Title 23 of the
				  Wyoming Statutes and Chapter 2, General Hunting Regulation, the Commission also
				  adopts the following definitions for the purpose of the chapter:
(a) "Archery Equipment" means a bow of at
				least fifty (50) pounds draw weight. The crossbow hunter must be equipped with
				a crossbow of not less than ninety (90) pounds draw weight and a crossbow bolt
				of at least sixteen (16) inches in length. The broadhead of arrows or bolts
				shall have a minimum cutting width of one (1) inch.
(b) "Bull" means any male wild bison older
				than one (1) year of age.
(c)
				"Calf" means young of the year wild bison.
(d) "Edible Portions" means the meat of the
				front quarters as far down as the knees, the meat of 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.
(e) "Expanding Point
				Bullet" means any bullet designed by its manufacturer to create a wound channel
				larger than the bullet's diameter.
(f) "Female" means any female wild bison
				older than one (1) year of age.
(g)
				"Firearm" means any firearm which has a barrel bore diameter of at least twenty
				seven hundredths (27/100) of an inch and is chambered to fire a center-fire
				cartridge not less than two (2) inches in overall length and using an expanding
				point bullet of a minimum of one hundred fifty (150) grains, seated to a normal
				depth.
(h) "Hunter Information
				Card" means a survey form used by the Department to collect wild bison hunting
				and harvest information.
(i)
				"Muzzle-loading Firearm" means a muzzle-loading rifle having a barrel bore
				diameter of at least 50/100 of an inch and firing an expanding point bullet or
				lead ball and using a charge of at least one hundred (100) grains of black
				powder or equivalent.
(j) "National
				Elk Refuge Permit" means a permit that allows a properly licensed wild bison
				hunter to access the National Elk Refuge to take a wild bison.
(k) "Site of kill" means the location where
				the harvested animal died.
(l)
				"Type" means a limitation on a wild bison license in a particular hunt area for
				the sex of animal, the length of season, the type of weapon or a portion of a
				hunt area in which the license shall be valid.
(m) "Waste" means to leave, abandon or allow
				any edible portion of meat from a wild bison to become tainted, rotten or
				otherwise unfit for human consumption prior to processing at a person's home or
				at a processor.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 15 - WILD BISON RECREATIONAL HUNTING SEASON › Section 15-4 - National Elk Refuge Permits

Current through July 13, 2024
A National Elk Refuge permit is required prior to hunting
				  wild bison on the National Elk Refuge and shall be in possession of the hunter
				  while hunting wild bison on the National Elk Refuge. A limited number of
				  permits shall be available to hunt wild bison on the National Elk Refuge.
				  Permits shall be issued by the Department to licensed wild bison hunters by
				  random drawing and shall be valid only for specified dates. Alternate permits
				  may become available throughout the hunting season depending upon harvest and
				  management objectives.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 15 - WILD BISON RECREATIONAL HUNTING SEASON › Section 15-5 - Tagging Requirements

Current through July 13, 2024
When any wild bison is killed under a license, the licensee
				  shall detach, sign and date the carcass coupon and attach the coupon to the
				  carcass before leaving the site of the kill. The coupon shall remain on the
				  wild bison carcass at all times until the meat undergoes processing, except
				  that during transportation of the carcass the coupon may be removed to prevent
				  its loss. If the coupon is removed for transportation of the carcass, it shall
				  be in the possession of the person accompanying the carcass at all
				  times.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 15 - WILD BISON RECREATIONAL HUNTING SEASON › Section 15-6 - Retrieval of Edible Portions

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) No person shall
				take and leave, abandon, or allow any wild bison, or edible portion to
				intentionally or needlessly go to waste. The failure of any person to properly
				dress and care for any wild bison killed by that person and if the carcass is
				reasonably accessible, within forty-eight (48) hours to take or transport the
				carcass to the camp of that person, and to properly care for the carcass is
				prima facie evidence of a violation of this section. The Department may require
				substantive proof from any person who fails to retrieve from the site of kill
				all edible portions of a wild bison as to why the edible portions were not
				removed from the field.
(b) No
				person shall wound or kill any wild bison without making a reasonable effort to
				retrieve it and reduce it to possession. For the purpose of this subsection,
				making a reasonable effort shall include a person physically going to the
				nearest location where the wild bison was when a person attempted to take the
				wild bison, in order to search for any sign the wild bison was wounded or
				killed, and take the wild bison into possession.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 15 - WILD BISON RECREATIONAL HUNTING SEASON › Section 15-7 - Wearing of Fluorescent Orange or Fluorescent Pink Clothing

Current through July 13, 2024
No person shall hunt any wild bison without wearing in a
				  visible manner one (1) or more exterior garments, which shall include a hat,
				  shirt, jacket, coat, vest or sweater of a fluorescent orange or fluorescent
				  pink color.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 15 - WILD BISON RECREATIONAL HUNTING SEASON › Section 15-8 - Retention of Evidence To Identify Sex of Wild Bison Harvested

Current through July 13, 2024
Any person who takes any wild bison in a hunt area where the
				  taking of either sex is controlled or prohibited shall comply with this section
				  while said animal is in transportation from the site of the kill to the
				  residence of the person taking the wild bison, or delivered to a processor for
				  processing. In hunt areas where the taking of any wild bison is restricted to a
				  specific sex of animal, the visible external sex organs shall accompany the
				  animal as a whole or edible portion thereof.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 15 - WILD BISON RECREATIONAL HUNTING SEASON › Section 15-9 - Transportation and Exportation

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) No person shall
				ship, transport, or receive for shipment or transportation within Wyoming, any
				wild bison or part thereof, unless tagged with a Wyoming interstate game tag,
				or unless:
(i) The transportation is by a
				person accompanying the carcass of a wild bison who is in possession of a
				proper coupon.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 15 - WILD BISON RECREATIONAL HUNTING SEASON › Section 15-10 - Hunting Regulations

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Shooting Hours.
				Shooting hours for the hunting of wild bison shall be from one-half (1/2) hour
				before sunrise to one-half (1/2) hour after sunset.
(b) Bag and Possession Limits. The bag and
				possession limit for wild bison shall be one (1) wild bison per
				license.
(c) Hunt Areas, Season
				Dates and Limitations.
Hunt Area
Type
Season Dates
Quota
Limitations
Opens
Closes
2
1
Aug. 15
Jan. 31
70
Any wild bison; from Jan. 2 - Jan. 31 limited
							 alternate permits for the National Elk Refuge may be available through the
							 Department's Jackson Regional Office on a first-come first-served basis until
							 the season closes or forage/weather conditions dictate that supplemental
							 feeding is necessary. Also valid in Area 1 within the Clark's Fork River and
							 Soda Butte Creek drainages from Aug. 15 - Dec. 31. Valid in other parts of Area
							 1 upon notification and authorization by the Department. (63 residents, 6
							 nonresidents)
3
Closed
(d)
				Wild bison hunting seasons may be closed because of an emergency upon
				forty-eight (48) hours notice.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 15 - WILD BISON RECREATIONAL HUNTING SEASON › Section 15-11 - Mandatory Reporting

Current through July 13, 2024
Within three (3) consecutive days (seventy-two (72) hours)
				  after taking a wild bison, the licensee shall submit a completed hunter
				  information card to the Department Jackson Regional Office. All unsuccessful
				  wild bison hunters shall submit a completed hunter information card to the
				  Department's Jackson Regional Office within three (3) consecutive days
				  (seventy-two (72) hours) after the season closes.
(a) For successful hunters, the hunter
				information card shall include the licensee's name, license number, date of
				harvest, total number of days hunted, the sex and age class (adult, yearling,
				calf) of the wild bison harvested, the drainage and the legal description of
				where the wild bison was harvested to include section, range and township or
				UTM coordinates. Successful hunters shall also supply biological samples as
				required by the Department.
(b) For
				unsuccessful hunters, the hunter information card shall include licensee's
				name, license number and total number of days hunted.
(c) Any person who makes a false statement on
				the hunter information card shall be in violation of this regulation.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 15 - WILD BISON RECREATIONAL HUNTING SEASON › Section 15-12 - Hunt Area Descriptions

Current through July 13, 2024
Area and number.
Area 1. Absaroka.
All lands within Park, Hot
				  Springs and Fremont counties and Teton County east of the Continental Divide,
				  excluding lands administered by the Wind River Reservation, Yellowstone
				  National Park and the lands described in Area 3.
Area 2. Jackson.
All lands within Lincoln and
				  Sublette counties and Teton County west of the Continental Divide, excluding
				  Grand Teton National Park, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway and
				  Yellowstone National Park.
Area 3. North Fork.
All of the north, south and
				  west drainages of the North Fork of the Shoshone River.
WYOMING GAME AND FISH COMMISSION
By: ________________________________
Richard Ladwig, President
Date: April 16, 2024
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 20 - WILD TURKEY HUNTING SEASONS › Section 20-4 - Hunt Area Descriptions

Current through July 13, 2024
Area and Number.
Area 1.
The entire State of Wyoming.
WYOMING GAME AND FISH COMMISSION
By: ________________________________
Richard Ladwig, President
Dated: April 16, 2024
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 21 - GRAY WOLF MANAGEMENT › Section 21-1 - Authority

Current through July 13, 2024
This regulation is promulgated by authority of W.S. §
									
										23-1-101, §
									
										23-1-102, §
									
										23-1-108, §
									
										23-1-302, §
									
										23-1-304, §
									
										23-1-901 and §
									
										23-3-115.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 21 - GRAY WOLF MANAGEMENT › Section 21-2 - Regulation

Current through July 13, 2024
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission adopts the following
				  regulation for the management of gray wolves in Wyoming. The Commission has
				  management authority for gray wolves in those areas of the state where wolves
				  are designated as trophy game animals as defined in Section
				  4(a) excluding gray wolves
				  present on the National Elk Refuge and on lands administered by the National
				  Park Service within Grand Teton National Park. The Commission does not have
				  management authority nor do these regulations apply to Yellowstone National
				  Park or Tribal lands within the Wind River Reservation. Wolves present within
				  all lands outside of Yellowstone National Park and the Wind River Reservation
				  will be counted towards the Commission management objectives listed in Section
				  4(a). This regulation
				  shall go into effect from and after the date gray wolves are removed from the
				  federal list of experimental nonessential populations, endangered species or
				  threatened species in Wyoming. This regulation shall remain in effect until
				  modified or repealed by the Commission.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 21 - GRAY WOLF MANAGEMENT › Section 21-4 - Gray Wolves Designated as Trophy Game Animals or Predatory Animals

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Gray wolves in that portion of Wyoming
				described as the WTGMA during all portions of the year and Seasonal WTGMA from
				October 15 to the last day of February in the subsequent year are designated as
				trophy game animals and managed under the authority of the Wyoming Game and
				Fish Commission.
(i) The Commission shall
				manage for at least ten (10) breeding pairs of gray wolves and a total of at
				least one hundred (100) individual gray wolves in Wyoming outside of
				Yellowstone National Park and the Wind River Reservation at the end of the
				current calendar year. The Department shall make management decisions based on
				the most current available data and in an adaptive manner that will ensure the
				maintenance of at least ten (10) breeding pairs of gray wolves and a total of
				at least one hundred (100) individual gray wolves.
(ii) The Commission is committed to managing
				gray wolves in Wyoming to ensure genetic diversity and connectivity issues do
				not threaten the population. This commitment will be accomplished by
				encouraging effective migrants into the population in accordance with the
				Commission's Wolf Management Plan.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 21 - GRAY WOLF MANAGEMENT › Section 21-5 - Monitoring Gray Wolves

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) The Commission
				is committed to managing gray wolves in Wyoming to ensure genetic diversity and
				connectivity issues do not threaten the population. This commitment will be
				accomplished by encouraging effective migrants into the population. The
				Department will request voluntary submission of genetic samples from gray
				wolves killed as predatory animals and will collect and analyze genetic samples
				from live gray wolves handled by the Department or killed through sport hunting
				as trophy game animals, during agency control actions, for protection of
				private property and gray wolves that die from any other form of mortality to
				monitor genetic connectivity. The Department will enter into a memorandum of
				understanding with the states of Montana and Idaho to coordinate management
				actions that facilitate genetic connectivity.
(b) The Department shall institute and
				maintain a gray wolf population-monitoring program. Tracking devices may be
				placed on gray wolves handled by the Department in areas of the state where
				gray wolves are designated as trophy game animals during population monitoring,
				conflict resolution or management activities or non-lethal control actions to
				accurately determine the population and movements of gray wolves. The
				Department may enter into memoranda of understanding with other state or
				federal agencies to monitor gray wolf population levels and
				movements.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 21 - GRAY WOLF MANAGEMENT › Section 21-6 - Lethal Control of Gray Wolves Designated as Trophy Game Animals

Current through July 13, 2024
(a)
				Any gray wolf in the act of doing damage to private property may be immediately
				taken and killed by the owner as provided in W.S. §
									
										23-3-115(c). The carcass of
				a gray wolf shall not be removed from the site of kill and the area around the
				carcass shall not be disturbed until investigated by the Department. The owner
				shall notify a district game warden, district wildlife biologist or Department
				personnel at a Game and Fish Department Regional Office within seventy-two (72)
				hours of the kill. The owner shall provide the location of the site of kill
				(identified by the section, township and range, or UTM coordinates), the name
				and address of the person taking the gray wolf, and the date of kill.
(b) Upon discovery that a gray wolf or wolves
				have harassed, injured, maimed or killed livestock or domesticated animals, or
				are occupying a chronic wolf predation area, the owner may notify the
				Department. Upon verification by the Department or personnel from other
				agencies operating under the authority of a signed memorandum of understanding
				with the Commission and upon request of the owner, the Department:
(i) Shall issue a gray wolf Lethal Take
				Permit to the owner if the conditions in Section
				7(a) are met;
				and,
(ii) May authorize Department
				personnel or its agent(s) to remove the offending gray wolf or
				wolves.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 21 - GRAY WOLF MANAGEMENT › Section 21-8 - Non-lethal Control of Gray Wolves Designated as Trophy Game Animals

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Non-lethal control of gray wolves shall
				be initiated when deemed appropriate by the Department or when requested by the
				owner, but may be discontinued at the discretion of, and upon determination by
				the Department that lethal control is necessary to mitigate continued
				harassment, injury, maiming or killing of livestock or domesticated
				animals.
(b) Non-lethal control
				actions shall be initiated if further lethal control may prevent the Department
				from achieving the management objectives described in Section
				4(a)(i).
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 21 - GRAY WOLF MANAGEMENT › Section 21-9 - Savings Clause

Current through July 13, 2024
If any provision of this regulation shall be held to be
				  illegal or unconstitutional, such a ruling shall not affect other provisions of
				  this regulation which can be given effect without the illegal or
				  unconstitutional provision; and, to this end, the provisions of this regulation
				  shall be severable.
WYOMING GAME AND FISH COMMISSION
By:__________
Aaron Clark, President
Dated: April 25, 2012
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 22 - WATERCRAFT REGULATION › Section 22-1 - Authority

Current through July 13, 2024
This regulation is promulgated by authority of Wyoming
				  Statutes (W.S.) §
									31-2-101, §
									41-13-102, §
									41-13-104, §
									41-13-208, §
									41-13-211, §
									41-13-213, §
									41-13-217, §
									41-13-218 and §
									41-13-219.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 22 - WATERCRAFT REGULATION › Section 22-2 - Regulation

Current through July 13, 2024
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission hereby adopts the
				  following regulation governing watercraft. This regulation shall become
				  effective January 1, 2024, and shall remain in effect until modified or
				  repealed by the Commission.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 22 - WATERCRAFT REGULATION › Section 22-4 - Motorized Watercraft Registration and Numbers

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) All
				numbers assigned to motorized watercraft in the State shall consist of three
				(3) parts. The first part, the prefix, shall consist of the letters "WY"
				signifying the State of registration; the second part shall consist of not more
				than four (4) Arabic numerals; the third part, the suffix, shall consist of not
				more than two (2) capital letters, but "I", "O" and "Q" shall not be used
				because of their similarity to Arabic numerals. The first capital letter in the
				third part, the suffix, shall indicate the Class of motorboat as A, B, C, or D.
				Numbers assigned to motorized watercraft dealers shall have the letters "DL" as
				the suffix. Numbers assigned to rental watercraft shall have the letters "AL,"
				"BL," or "CL" as the suffix.
(b)
				All numbers shall be displayed on each side of the bow of the motorized
				watercraft in such a manner that the numbers are clearly readable when the
				motorized watercraft is underway.
(i) Numbers
				shall be affixed on each side of the exterior bow of the motorized watercraft
				to read from left to right. The numbers shall be:
(A) In plain, block vertical, not slanted,
				letters and numerals of the same proportion;
(B) A minimum of three (3) inches high
				excluding shading and bordering; and,
(C) A color that contrasts with the color of
				the background, i.e., dark numbers on a light background or light numbers on a
				dark background.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 22 - WATERCRAFT REGULATION › Section 22-5 - Watercraft Safety Equipment Requirements

Current through July 13, 2024
Except as provided in this section, it shall be the
				  responsibility of the operator of the watercraft to ensure that all required
				  safety equipment is aboard the watercraft during operation. If the owner of the
				  watercraft is aboard the watercraft during operation, it shall be the
				  responsibility of the owner and not the operator to ensure that all required
				  safety equipment is aboard the watercraft during operation. In the case of
				  rental watercraft, it shall be the responsibility of the rental boat owner to
				  ensure that all required safety equipment is aboard the watercraft at the time
				  the watercraft is rented.
(a) Every
				watercraft when underway on the waters of the State from sunset to sunrise
				shall carry and exhibit lights in accordance with the provisions of this
				section. From sunset to sunrise, no other light that may be mistaken for those
				listed in this section shall be used.
(i)
				Every motorized watercraft of classes A and B shall carry the following lights:
(A) A bright white light aft to be visible
				three hundred sixty degrees (360°) all around the horizon; and,
(B) A combined lantern in the front of the
				motorized watercraft and lower than the white light aft, showing green to
				starboard and red to port, so fixed as to show the light from directly ahead to
				twenty-two and five tenths degrees (22.5°) aft the beam on their respective
				sides.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 22 - WATERCRAFT REGULATION › Section 22-6 - Boat Races, Regattas and Water Ski Tournaments

Current through July 13, 2024
No regattas, watercraft races, marine parades, tournaments or
				  exhibitions, trials thereof or other similar events shall be held without prior
				  written authorization from the Department.
(a) Department authorization shall not be
				granted for any regattas, watercraft races, marine parades, tournaments or
				exhibitions or trials thereof, without first assuring that:
(i) When the Department authorizes an event,
				water markers, buoys or regulatory signs shall be placed during the hours of
				the event by the person granted authority for the event to warn other
				watercraft operators of a controlled area prohibited from entering by anyone
				other than contestants of the event. The markers, buoys or regulatory signs
				shall conform with those adopted for use in the State; and,
(ii) The person granted authority for the
				regatta, watercraft races, marine parades, tournaments, exhibitions or trials
				shall satisfy the Department that adequate safeguards and controls exist to
				protect human life, limb and property.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 22 - WATERCRAFT REGULATION › Section 22-7 - Waterway Marking System

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) The Department
				may restrict and guide watercraft use on waters by placement of such buoys,
				markers or regulatory signs as it deems necessary. All users of watercraft are
				required to obey the buoys, markers or regulatory signs. The buoys, markers or
				regulatory signs signify restricted areas, danger areas and information
				pertaining to watercraft operation in specific areas. Standard markers used are
				as follows:
(i) A diamond shape of
				international orange with white center shall indicate danger. The nature of the
				danger may be indicated by words or well known abbreviations in black letters
				inside the diamond shape, or above or below it on white background;
(ii) A diamond shape of international orange
				with a cross of international orange against a white center without qualifying
				explanation shall indicate a zone from which all watercraft are
				excluded;
(iii) A circle of
				international orange with white center shall indicate a control or restriction.
				The nature of the control or restriction shall be indicated by words, numerals
				or well known abbreviations in black letters inside the circle. Additional
				explanations may be given above or below in black letters;
(iv) A rectangular shape of international
				orange with white center shall indicate information, other than a danger,
				control or restriction that may contribute to health, safety or well being. The
				message shall be presented within the rectangle in black letters;
(v) Letters or numerals used with regulatory
				markers shall be black in block characters of good proportion and spaced in a
				manner that shall provide maximum legibility and visibility; and,
(vi) No buoys, markers or regulatory signs
				shall be placed upon the waters of the State without prior approval of the
				Department, except that divers or persons snorkeling shall place a diver down
				flag(s) upon the water in the immediate area of their activity.
(A) No person shall operate or permit the
				operation of any motorized watercraft on the waters of this State within one
				hundred (100) feet of a diver down flag(s) that has been displayed to indicate
				the presence of a person diving or snorkeling. Diver down flag(s) shall not be
				placed in areas already occupied by other watercraft.
(I) The diver down flag(s) shall be displayed
				only when diving or snorkeling is in progress, and shall be displayed so as not
				to impede normal watercraft traffic.
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 22 - WATERCRAFT REGULATION › Section 22-8 - Personal Watercraft

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) No person
				operating a personal watercraft shall cross or jump the wake of another
				watercraft within one hundred (100) feet of the watercraft creating the
				wake.
(b) No person shall operate a
				personal watercraft unless the watercraft is equipped with an engine cut-off
				switch installed by the manufacturer. When a personal watercraft is underway,
				the engine cut-off switch shall be attached via a lanyard to the operator of
				the personal watercraft in such a manner that in the event the operator is
				ejected from the personal watercraft the engine shall stop.
(c) Personal watercraft are prohibited on
				certain waters; refer to Section 9(b) of this regulation.
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 23-1 - Authority

Current through July 13, 2024
This regulation is promulgated by authority of W.S. §
				  23-1-302 (a)(iii).
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 23-2 - Purpose

Current through July 13, 2024
It is the purpose of this regulation to allow the Department
				  to manage and conserve wildlife, wildlife habitat and public access on lands
				  and waters acquired or administered by the Commission and to regulate public
				  use and special use of such lands and waters.
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 23-6 - Exceptions

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Department personnel and personnel of
				other government agencies responsible for the management of wildlife or
				management of the lands and waters acquired or administered by the Commission,
				are exempt from provisions of Section 5 as those provisions relate to their
				official duties on said lands or waters.
(b) Any person acting under written agreement
				authorized by the Department may be exempted from certain provisions of this
				regulation if the exemption appears in the written agreement.
(c) Individual landowners and their agents
				are exempt from provisions of Section 5(b) on their own lands enrolled in the
				Department's Access Yes Program.
WYOMING GAME AND FISH COMMISSION
By: ______________________________________
Richard Ladwig, President
Dated: March 12, 2024
Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 25 - FALCONRY AND RAPTOR PROPAGATION REGULATION › Section 25-1 - Authority

Current through July 13, 2024
This regulation is promulgated by authority of Wyoming
				  Statutes §
									
										23-1-103, §
									
										23-1-302, §
									
										23-2-101 and §
									
										23-2-105.