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2022 MIGRATORY GAME BIRD HUNTING SEASONS AND LIGHT GOOSE CONSERVATION ORDER
(iii) Central Flyway
CENTRAL FLYWAY
Species and
Hunt Areas
Light geese
Season Dates
Opens Closes
Oct. 1
Feb. 1
Ducks and
Mergansers
Coots
Dark Geese
Oct. 1
Jan. 1
Feb. 12
Nov. 5 Jan. 24
Oct. 1
Oct. 16
Nov. 5 Jan. 24
Oct. 1
Oct. 9
Nov. 5 Nov. 27
Dec. 2 Feb. 12
Ducks and
Mergansers
Coots
Dark Geese*
Ducks and
Mergansers
Coots
Dark Geese
Oct.1
Oct. 1
Oct. 1
Nov. 5 Jan. 24
Oct. 16
Nov. 5 Jan. 24
Oct. 12
Nov. 12 Feb. 12
Sep. 24 Dec. 4
Dec. 17 Jan. 10
Sep. 24 Dec. 4
Dec. 17 Jan. 10
Sep. 24 Dec. 4
Dec. 17 Jan. 18
c after Nov. 14
c
CENTRAL FLYWAY - ZONE C1A
Oct. 16
b
b
a after Nov. 11
b
b
a after Nov. 11
b
a, b
CENTRAL FLYWAY - ZONE C2
6**
6**
15
15
5
5
18**
18**
45
45
15
15
*For Bump-Sullivan Managed Goose Hunt information, see Section 6.
**The daily bag limit of six (6) ducks and mergansers may include any combination of
species with the following restrictions:
* no more than five (5) mallards of which not more than two (2) shall be hens;
* no more than one (1) pintail;
* no more than three (3) wood ducks;
* no more than two (2) canvasbacks;
* no more than two (2) redheads; and,
* no more than one (1) scaup.
* two (2) blue-winged teal may be taken in addition to the regular limit of six (6) ducks
during the following dates:
- Zone C1 and C1A: October 1 - October 16
- Zone C2: September 24 - October 9
(j) Special Hunting Days for Youths, Veterans and Active Military Personnel (including
members of the National Guard and Reserves on active duty). In the Pacific Flyway
and in Zone C2 of the Central Flyway, the special hunting days for youths, veterans and
active military personnel are September 17-18, 2022. In Zone C1 and C1A of the Central
Flyway, the special hunting days for youths, veterans and active military personnel are
September 24-25, 2022. Only qualifying persons may take ducks, mergansers, coots
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c after Nov. 14
Closed Areas Section
3 Subsections
b
a after Nov. 11
c after Nov. 14
a, b, c
CENTRAL FLYWAY - ZONE C1
Oct. 16
c after Nov. 14
20
6**
6**
15
15
5
5
5
6**
6**
15
15
2
5
60
18**
18**
45
45
15
15
15
18**
18**
45
45
6
15
Bag limit
Daily Possession
20
60
and geese on these special hunting days, subject to the following conditions:
(i) All youth hunters shall be seventeen (17) years of age or younger and shall be
accompanied in the field by an adult at least eighteen (18) years of age.
(ii) No more than four (4) youths shall be accompanied by any one (1) adult.
(iii) The accompanying adult shall not take ducks, coots, mergansers or geese unless
they also qualify as a veteran or active military personnel. However the accompanying
adult may participate in other open seasons.
(iv) All license and stamp requirements, daily bag limits, species and sex restrictions,
shooting hours and other regulations that apply to the regular duck and goose seasons,
as defined for each flyway, shall apply during the special hunting days for youths,
veterans and active military personnel. Exceptions: The additional blue-winged teal
limit does not apply on these special hunting days. In Zone C1A, the daily bag limit for
dark geese shall be four (4) on the special hunting days for youths, veterans and active
military personnel.
(v) All veterans and active military personnel participating in the special hunting days
shall be in possession of documentation confirming they are a veteran or active military
personnel while hunting in the field.
(vi) The areas described in Section 3 (b), (d), (e) and (f) shall be closed to hunting during
the special hunting days for youths, veterans and active military personnel.
Section 3. Description of Closed Areas.
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 highwater
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.
(b) Platte County
(i) Festo Lake. Festo Lake and all lands within three hundred (300) yards of the normal
high water line.
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