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BLACK BEAR REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 3: BLACK BEAR HUNTING SEASONS
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SECTION 1. AUTHORITY
This regulation is promulgated by authority of Wyoming Statutes § 231-302
and § 23-2-104 .
SECTION 2. DEFINITIONS
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 this chapter:
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. " Bait Location " means the GPS location of a bait placed within a
registered bait site .
c. " Bait Site " means the individual section of land identified by legal
description on a valid bear bait registration document .
d. " Chemical attractant " means any chemical(s) used as a lure or
mask rather than for consumption .
e. " Dependent young " means any black bear cub-of -the-year or yearling
black bear traveling with an adult female black bear .
f. " GPS coordinates " means a specified geographic location defined
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g. " 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 in accordance
with Section 5 . Immediately also means any person taking a grizzly
bear shall report, without delay, to the Wyoming Game and Fish
Department in accordance with Section 11 of this regulation .
h. " 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 .
i. " Processed bait " means a nontoxic, biodegradable substance .
j. " 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 .
k. " Unprocessed bait " means livestock or livestock parts that have
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parts that are not otherwise prohibited in Section 2(j) .
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