2023 upland game bird and small game regs - 14

2023 HUNTING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 11: UPLAND GAME BIRD AND SMALL GAME
HUNTING SEASONS
What documents do I need to hunt upland game birds in Wyoming?
Resident
Documents
Under age of 14
Hunter Safety Certificate (See page 8)
Wyoming Conservation Stamp (See page 7)
Pheasant Special Management Permit (See page 17)
Resident daily or 12 month game bird or game bird/small
game hunting license (See page 4)
Nonresident daily or 12 month game bird/small game hunting
license (See page 4)
Nonresident 12 month youth game bird/small game hunting
license (See page 4)
SECTION 2. HUNTING REGULATIONS
a . Bag and Possession Limit . Only one (1) daily bag limit of each species
of upland game birds and small game may be taken per day regardless
of the number of hunt areas hunted in a single day . When
hunting more than one (1) hunt area, a person's daily and possession
limits shall be equal to, but shall not exceed, the largest daily
and possession limit prescribed for any one (1) of the specified hunt
areas in which the hunting and possession occurs .
b . Evidence of sex and species shall remain naturally attached to the
carcass of any upland game bird in the field and during transportation
. For pheasant, this shall include the feathered head, feathered
wing or foot . For all other upland game bird species, this shall include
one fully feathered wing .
c . No person shall possess or use shot other than nontoxic shot for
hunting game birds and small game with a shotgun on the Commission's
Table Mountain and Springer wildlife habitat management
areas and on all national wildlife refuges open for hunting .
d . Required Clothing . Any person hunting pheasants within the boundaries
of any Wyoming Game and Fish Commission Wildlife Habitat
Management Area, or on Bureau of Reclamation Withdrawal lands
bordering and including Glendo State Park, shall wear in a visible
manner at least one (1) outer garment of fluorescent orange or fluorescent
pink color which shall include a hat, shirt, jacket, coat, vest
or sweater .
SECTION 3. UPLAND GAME BIRD HUNTING SEASONS
a . Sage Grouse Hunt Areas, Season Dates, Bag Limits and Limitations .
SAGE GROUSE
Hunt
Area
1
2, 3, 4
i . Sage Grouse Hunt Area Descriptions .
Area 1 . Includes all of Big Horn, Fremont, Hot Springs, Park, Sweetwater,
Uinta and Washakie counties, as well as that portion of Albany County
north of U .S . Highway 30-287 and west of the Fetterman Road (Albany
County Road 61), that portion of Converse County south and west of
the Balsh Road (U .S .F .S . Road 660), all of Carbon County except that
portion east of the Medicine Bow River and South of U .S . Highway 30287,
all of Lincoln and Sublette counties except those portions within the
Snake River drainage, and all of Natrona County except that portion east
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Season Dates
Opens
Sep. 16
Closes
Sep. 30
Bag Limit
Daily Poss.
2
4
Limitations
Any sage grouse
CLOSED
Hunt
Area
1
Season Dates
Opens
Sep. 1
Closes
Dec. 31
of Interstate Highway 25 . Area 1 also excludes that portion of Natrona
County south of Interstate Highway 25 in the Muddy Creek drainage .
Area 2 . The entire state of Wyoming excluding the lands described in
Areas 1, 3 and 4 .
Area 3 . All lands in the Snake River drainage within Lincoln, Sublette
and Teton counties .
Area 4 . Beginning at the intersection of the Sheridan-Big Horn county
line with the Wyoming-Montana state line; easterly along said state line
to the Rocky Point Road in Crook County; southerly along said road to the
" D " Road; southerly along said road to Interstate Highway 90; easterly
along said highway to U .S . Highway 16 at Moorcroft; southeasterly along
said highway to U .S . Highway 85 at Newcastle; southerly along said
highway to the Weston-Niobrara-Campbell-Converse-Natrona-Johnson
county lines; westerly along said county lines to the Washakie-Johnson-Big
Horn-Sheridan county lines; northerly then northwesterly along
said county lines to the Wyoming-Montana state line .
b . Blue (Dusky) Grouse Hunt Areas, Season Dates, Bag Limit and Limitations
.
Hunt
Area
1
Season Dates
Opens
Sep. 1
Closes
Dec. 31
BLUE (DUSKY) GROUSE
Bag Limit
Daily Poss.
9
3
Limitations
Any blue (dusky) grouse
i . Blue (Dusky) Grouse Hunt Area Description
Area 1 . The entire state of Wyoming .
c . Ruffed Grouse Hunt Areas, Season Dates, Bag Limits and Limitations
.
RUFFED GROUSE
Bag Limit
Daily Poss.
9
3
i . Ruffed Grouse Hunt Area Description .
Area 1 . The entire state of Wyoming .
d . Partridge Hunt Areas, Season Dates, Bag Limit and Limitations .
CHUKAR PARTRIDGE
Bag Limit
Hunt
Area
1
Season Dates
Opens
Sep. 15
Closes
Feb. 28
Daily Poss.
5
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WYOMING GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT
Limitations
Any chukar partridge
Limitations
Any ruffed grouse
Ages 14 and older
Under age of 14
Nonresident
Ages 14-17
Ages 18 and older
UPLAND GAME BIRDS
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