040-3 Wyo. Code R. § 3-3

Current through April 27, 2019
Section 3-3 - Definitions

Definitions shall be as set forth in Title 23, Wyoming Statute, Commission regulations, and the Commission also adopts the following definitions:

(a) "Baiting" means placing or utilizing a processed bait or an unprocessed bait as a lure or attractant for the purpose of taking black bear.

(b) "Chemical attractant" means any chemical(s) used as a lure or mask rather than for consumption.

(c) "Dependent young" means any black bear cub of the year or yearling black bear traveling with an adult female black bear.

(d) "GPS coordinates" means a specified geographic location defined by any universal coordinate system that will direct Department personnel to within fifty (50) yards of a registered bait site.

(e) "Immediately" means following the observation of a grizzly bear using a bait, the person registering the bait, the person placing the bait or the person hunting over the bait shall report, without delay, said use to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. Immediately also means any person taking a grizzly bear shall report, without delay, to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department in accordance with Section 12 of this regulation.

(f) "Mortality" means any legal or illegal human caused female black bear death, excluding female black bears taken by the Department, female black bears taken under the authority of W.S. § 23-3-115(a) and known natural and accidental female black bear deaths.

(g) "Processed bait" means a nontoxic biodegradable substance.

(h) "Prohibited bait" means big game animals, small game animals, game birds, game fish, protected animals, protected birds or parts thereof placed for the purpose of attracting a bear.

(j) "Unprocessed bait" means livestock or livestock parts that have not been processed for human consumption, or wildlife or wildlife parts that are not otherwise prohibited in Section 3(h).

(k) "Water" means permanent rivers, streams, lakes or ponds.

040-3 Wyo. Code R. § 3-3

Amended, Eff. 3/22/2017.