Wyo. Code R. 040-0001-42
Effective Date: 09/08/1995 to 09/06/1996
Rule Type: Superceded Rules & Regulations
Reference Number: 040.0001.42.09081995
Section 1. Authority. These rules are promulgated by authority of W.S. 23-1-302.
Section 2. Definitions. For the purpose of this regulation, definitions shall be as set forth in Title 23, Wyoming Statutes and the Commission also adopts the following definitions:
Section 3. Hunting Seasons Established and Effective Date. There shall be open seasons for the hunting of mountain lion as set forth in the Hunting Regulations (Section 4), Archery Regulations (Section 5) and Hunt Area Descriptions (Section 6) of this Chapter. This regulation shall remain in effect until modified or rescinded by the Commission.
Section 4. Hunting Regulations.
(a) Open Hours for Taking of Trophy Game Animals. Trophy game animals may only be taken one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset.
(b) Reporting Kills. Hunters taking mountain lion shall retain the pelt and skull from each mountain lion taken. Even if the skull is damaged it shall accompany the pelt. Visible external evidence of sex shall remain naturally attached to the pelt. Within 3 days (72 hours) after taking a mountain lion, the pelt and skull shall be presented by the licensee to a district game warden or department personnel at the nearest Game and Fish Department regional office during business hours for examination and reporting. The pelt and skull must be presented in an unfrozen condition in order to allow collection of two premolar teeth to be utilized to determine the age of the mountain lion and to allow examination of the pelt to determine the sex of the mountain lion. The licensee shall provide the legal description (section, township and range) where the mountain lion was harvested.
(c) Use of Dogs. Dogs may be used to take mountain lion during the open season. Mountain lions treed or held at bay by dogs must be taken immediately or released.
(d) Bag and Possession Limits. The bag and possession limit for mountain lion shall be one mountain lion during any one calendar year (January 1-December 31). Hunters may take any mountain lion, except kittens and female lions with kittens at side shall not be taken.
(e) Open Areas, Season Dates and Limitations.
| Mountain Lion Management Unit | Hunt Area | Annual Mortality Quota | Annual Female Mortality Quota | Dates of Seasons |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northeast | 1 | 1 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | |
| 24 | 2 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | ||
| Southeast | 5 | 4 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | |
| 6 | 10 | 4 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | |
| 7 | 10 | 4 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | |
| 8 | 5 | 2 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | |
| 9 | 2 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | ||
| 25 | 3 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | ||
| 26 | 4 | 2 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | |
| 27 | 10 | 4 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | |
| Southwest | 10 | 4 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | |
| 11 | 2 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | ||
| 12 | 4 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | ||
| 13 | 3 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | ||
| 16 | 1 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | ||
| North-Central | 15 | 15 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | |
| 21 | 8 | 4 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | |
| 22 | 15 | 7 | July 1-June 30 | |
| 23 | 7 | 3 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | |
| West | 2 | 2 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | |
| 3 | 2 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | ||
| 4 | 4 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | ||
| 14 | 3 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | ||
| 17 | 3 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | ||
| 18 | 4 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | ||
| 19 | 6 | 3 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 | |
| 20 | 8 | 4 | Sept. 1-Mar. 31 |
(f) Area Mortality Quota Limitation. The mountain lion season in a hunt area shall close when the mortality quota is reached. In areas where a female quota is listed, the hunt area shall close if the female mortality quota is reached prior to the annual mortality quota being reached. Female mortality quotas shall be for fall through spring. It is the hunter's responsibility to confirm that the hunt area he intends to hunt is open. The status of hunt area closures is available by calling toll free 1-800-637-0809 within Wyoming 24 hours a day. Any mountain lion mortality documented by department personnel after the close of the spring season may be subtracted from the mortality quota for the next biological year.
Section 5. Archery Regulations. There may be an open season for the hunting of mountain lion by the use of legal archery equipment in all areas as set forth in Section 4 of this Chapter.
Area 1. Black Hills. Beginning where the Wyoming-Montana-South Dakota state lines meet; southerly along the Wyoming-South Dakota state line to the Dewey Road; northwesterly along said road to U.S. Highway 85; northerly along said highway to U.S. Highway 16; northwesterly along said highway to Interstate Highway 90; westerly along said highway to the 'D' Road; northerly along said road to the Wyoming-Montana state line; easterly along said line to the Wyoming-South Dakota state line.
Area 2. Teton. Beginning where the Continental Divide crosses the southern boundary of Yellowstone National Park; southerly along said divide to the Darwin Ranch-Mosquito Lake-Union Pass Road; southwesterly along said road to the Bridger-Teton interforest boundary; southerly along said boundary to U.S. Highway 189/191; northwesterly along said highway to U.S. Highway 26/89; southwesterly along said highway to the Wyoming-Idaho state line; northerly along said line to the south boundary of Yellowstone National Park; easterly along said boundary to the Continental Divide.
Area 3. Bridger. Beginning where the Darwin Ranch-Mosquito Lake-Union Pass Road crossed the Continental Divide; southerly along said divide to the divide between the Sweetwater and Wind River drainages; southeasterly along said divide to Sioux Pass and the head of the Sweetwater River; southeasterly down said river to U.S. Highway 28; southwesterly along said highway to U.S. Highway 191; north along said highway to the Bridger-Teton interforest boundary; northerly along said boundary to the Darwin Ranch-Mosquito Lake-Union Pass Road.
Area 4. Popo Agie. Beginning where Wyoming Highway 789 crosses the southern boundary of the Wind River Indian Reservation; westerly and southerly along said highway to Wyoming Highway 28; southerly along said highway to the Sweetwater River; westerly and then northeasterly up said river to Sioux Pass and the divide between the Sweetwater River and Wind River drainages; northwesterly along said divide to the Continental Divide at Mt. Nystrom; northerly along said divide to the south boundary of the Wind River Indian Reservation; easterly along said boundary to Wyoming Highway 789.
Area 5. Iron Mountain. Beginning where Interstate Highway 25 crosses the Wyoming-Colorado state line; westerly along said line to U.S. Highway 287; northerly along said highway to Wyoming Highway 34; northerly and easterly along said highway to Interstate Highway 25; southerly along said highway to the Wyoming-Colorado state line.
Area 6. Laramie Peak. Beginning where Interstate Highway 25 crosses the North Platte River at the city of Douglas; southerly along said highway to Wyoming Highway 312 in the town of Wheatland; westerly and southerly along said highway to the Palmer Canyon Road (Platte County Road 204-Albany County Road 721); westerly and southerly along said road to the Fetterman Road (Albany County Road 61); southwesterly along said road to U.S. Highway 287; northerly and westerly along said highway to Wyoming Highway 487; northerly and westerly along said highway to the divide between Spring Creek and Lone Tree Creek at Shirley Rim; northerly and easterly along said divide to the divide between Spring Creek and Bates Creek; northeasterly along said divide to the Bates Creek Road (Natrona County Road 402); easterly along said road to the Squaw Springs Trail; northerly along said road to USFS Road 660; easterly along said road to the Curry Creek/ Box Elder Creek divide; northerly along said divide to the Gunnysack Creek/Box Elder Creek divide; northeasterly along said divide to the confluence of Gunnysack Creek with Box Elder Creek; northeasterly down Box Elder Creek to the North Platte River; easterly down said river to Interstate Highway 25.
Area 7. Snowy Range. Beginning at the town of Medicine Bow and U.S. Highway 287; easterly and southerly along said highway to the Wyoming-Colorado state line; west along said line to Wyoming Highway 230 (west of the North Platte River); northerly along said highway to Wyoming 130; northerly along said highway to U.S. Highway 287; northeasterly along said highway to the town of Medicine Bow.
Area 8. Seminoe. Beginning at the junction of Wyoming Highway 220 and Wyoming Highway 487; southerly along Wyoming Highway 487 to U.S. Highway 287; westerly along said highway to Interstate Highway 80; westerly along said highway to U.S. Highway 287 in the city of Rawlins; northerly along said highway to Wyoming Highway 220; northeasterly along said highway to Wyoming Highway 487.
Area 9. Sierra Madre. Beginning at the junction of Interstate Highway 80 and Wyoming Highway 130; southerly along Wyoming Highway 130 to Wyoming Highway 230; southeasterly along said highway to the Wyoming-Colorado state line; west along said line to Continental Divide; northerly along said divide to the Sage Creek Road (Carbon County Road 401); northerly along said road to Wyoming Highway 71; northerly along said highway to Interstate Highway 80; easterly along said highway to Wyoming Highway 130.
Area 10. Haystacks. Beginning at the junction of Interstate Highway 80 and the Bitter Creek Road (Sweetwater County Road 19); easterly along Interstate I-80 to the junction of Wyoming Highway 71; southerly along said highway to the Sage Creek Road (Carbon County Road 401); southerly along said road to the Continental Divide at Middlewood Hill; southerly along said divide to the Wyoming-Colorado state line; west along said line to the Cow Creek-
Powder Wash Road north of Powder Wash, Colorado; northwesterly along said road to the Bitter Creek Road; northerly along said road to Interstate Highway 80.
Area 11. Red Desert. Beginning at the junction of Wyoming Highway 73 and U.S. Highway 287; southerly along U.S. Highway 287 to Interstate Highway 80; westerly along said highway to the Green River; northerly up said river to Big Sandy River; northeasterly up said river to U.S. Highway 191; southerly along said highway to Wyoming Highway 28; northeasterly along said highway to the Sweetwater River; northeasterly down said river to U.S. Highway 287; easterly along said highway to the Bison Basin Road; southerly along said road to the Alkali Creek Road (BLM 2317); easterly along said road to the Wamsutter Crooks Gap Road; southerly along said road to the Bairoil Road (Sweetwater County Road 22); easterly along said road to Wyoming Highway 73; easterly along said highway to U.S. Highway 287.
Area 12. Flaming Gorge. Beginning where Interstate Highway 80 intersects the Bitter Creek Road (Sweetwater County Road 19); southerly along the Bitter Creek Road to the Cow Creek-Powder Wash Road north of Powder Wash, Colorado; southeasterly along said road to the Wyoming-Colorado state line; westerly along said line to the Wyoming-Utah state line; westerly along said line to the Flaming Gorge Reservoir and the Green River; northerly up said river to Interstate Highway 80; easterly along said highway to the junction of the Bitter Creek Road.
Area 13. Wasatch. Beginning where Interstate Highway 80 crosses the Green River; southerly down said river to the Wyoming-Utah state line; westerly and northerly along said line to Interstate Highway 80; easterly along said highway to the Green River.
Area 14. Lincoln. Beginning where the watershed divide between Smith's Fork River and Greys River meets the head of LaBarge Creek; southeasterly down said creek to the Green River; southeasterly down said river to Interstate Highway 80; westerly along said highway to the Wyoming-Utah state line; northerly along said line to the Wyoming-Idaho state line; northerly along said line to the watershed divide between the Salt River and Bear River; easterly along said divide to the divide between the Salt River and Smith's Fork River; northeasterly along said divide to the divide between Smith's Fork River and Greys River; southeasterly along said divide to the head of LaBarge Creek.
Area 15. Kaycee. Beginning at the junction of U.S. Highway 16 and Interstate Highway 25 at the town of Buffalo; southerly along Interstate Highway 25 to U.S. Highway 20-26 at the city of Casper; westerly along said highway to the watershed divide between the Powder River and Badwater Creek; easterly and northerly along said divide to the watershed divide between the Big Horn River and the Powder River; northerly along said divide to U.S. Highway 16 at Powder River Pass; northeasterly along said highway to Interstate Highway 25.
Area 16. Gas Hills. Beginning at the city of Casper and Wyoming Highway 220; southwesterly along said highway to U.S. Highway 287; southerly along said highway to Wyoming Highway 73 at Lamont; westerly along said highway to the Bairoil Road (Sweetwater County Road 22); westerly along said road to the Wamsutter Crooks Gap Road; northerly along said road to the Alkali Creek Road (BLM 2317); westerly along said road to the Bison Basin
Road; northerly along said road to U.S. Highway 287; westerly along said highway to the Sweetwater River; southwesterly up said river to Wyoming Highway 28; northerly along said highway to Wyoming Highway 789; northerly and easterly along said highway to Wyoming Highway 789; northerly and easterly along said highway to the Wind River Indian Reservation; easterly and northerly along said boundary to U.S. Highway 20-26; easterly along said highway to Wyoming Highway 220 in the city of Casper.
Area 17. Piney. Beginning at the junction of U.S. Highway 26/89 and U.S. Highway 189/191 at Hoback Junction; southerly along U.S. Highway 191 to the Big Sandy River; southwesterly down said river to the Green River; northerly up the Green River to LaBarge Creek; westerly up said creek to the Greys River, Salt River and Smith's Fork River divide; westerly along said divide to the Wyoming-Idaho state line; northerly along said line to U.S. Highway 26/89; northeasterly along said highway to U.S. Highway 189/191.
Area 18. Wind River. All of the drainage of the Wind River which lies west of the west boundary of the Wind River Indian Reservation.
Area 19. Northwest. Beginning where the Big Horn River crosses the Wyoming-Montana state line; southerly up said river to the Greybull River; southwesterly up said river to the divide between the Greybull River and the Wind River; northwesterly along said divide to the divide between the Shoshone River and the Wind River; westerly along said divide to the Continental Divide; northwesterly along said divide to the south boundary of Yellowstone National Park; east then northerly along said boundary to the Wyoming-Montana state line; easterly along said line to the Big Horn River.
Area 20. Grass Creek. Beginning where the Greybull River flows into the Big Horn River; southerly up the Big Horn River to the north boundary of the Wind River Indian Reservation; westerly along said boundary to the divide between the Wood River and Wind River; northwesterly along said divide to the divide between the Greybull River and the Wind River; northwesterly along said divide to the Greybull River; northerly and easterly down the Greybull River to the Big Horn River.
Area 21. Shell. Beginning where the watershed divide between the Big Horn and Little Big Horn Rivers crosses the Wyoming-Montana state line; southerly along said divide to the divide between the Big Horn River and Tongue River; southwesterly along said divide to the divide between the Big Horn River and the Powder River; southeasterly along said divide to U.S. Highway 16; westerly along said highway to the Big Horn River; northerly down said river to the Wyoming-Montana state line; east along said line to the divide between the Big Horn River and Little Big Horn River.
Area 22. Ten Sleep. Beginning where U.S. Highway 16 crosses the divide between the Big Horn-Wind River drainage and the Powder River drainage; southerly along said divide to U.S. Highway 20-26; westerly along said highway to the east boundary of the Wind River Indian Reservation; north then west along said boundary to the Big Horn River; northerly down said river to U.S. Highway 16; easterly along said highway to the divide between the Big Horn-Wind
River drainage and the Powder River drainage. Also included are all lands of the Wind River Indian Reservation within the Bureau of Reclamation Riverton and Boysen Unit boundaries and Boysen State Park, excluding Indian sole occupancy lands north of Cottonwood Creek.
Area 23. Sheridan. Beginning where Interstate Highway 90 crosses the Wyoming-Montana state line; southerly along said highway to Interstate Highway 25 at the town of Buffalo; southerly along said highway to U.S. Highway 16; southwesterly along said highway to the watershed divide between the Powder River and the Big Horn River at Powder River Pass; northwesterly along said divide to the watershed divide between the Big Horn River and the Tongue River; northwesterly along said divide to the watershed divide between the Big Horn River and the Little Big Horn River; northerly along said divide to the Wyoming-Montana state line; easterly along said line to Interstate Highway 90.
Area 24. Northeast. Beginning where the 'D' Road crosses the Wyoming-Montana state line; southerly along said road to Interstate Highway 90; easterly along said highway to U.S. Highway 16; southeasterly along said highway to U.S. Highway 85; southerly along said highway to the Dewey Road; southeasterly along said road to the Wyoming-South Dakota state line; southerly along said line to the Wyoming-Nebraska state line; southerly along said line to U.S. Highway 20; westerly along said highway to Interstate Highway 25; northwesterly along said highway to the North Platte River at the town of Douglas; westerly up said river to the city of Casper and Interstate Highway 25; northerly along said highway to Interstate Highway 90; northerly along said highway to the Wyoming-Montana state line; easterly along said line to the 'D' Road.
Area 25. Hartville. Beginning where U.S. Highway 20 crosses the Wyoming-Nebraska state line; southerly along said line to the Wyoming-Colorado state line; westerly along said line to Interstate Highway 25; northerly along said highway to U.S. Highway 20; easterly along said highway to the Wyoming-Nebraska state line.
Area 26. Halleck Canyon. Beginning where Wyoming Highway 312 crosses Interstate Highway 25 in the town of Wheatland; southerly along Interstate Highway 25 to Wyoming Highway 34; westerly along said highway to U.S. Highway 287; northerly along said highway to the Fetterman Road (Albany County Road 61); northerly and easterly along said road to the Palmer Canyon Road (Albany County Road 721-Platte County Road 204); northerly and easterly along said road to Wyoming Highway 312; northerly and easterly along said highway to Interstate Highway 25.
Area 27. Casper Mountain. Beginning at the confluence of the North Platte River and Box Elder Creek east of the town of Glenrock; southerly up said creek to the confluence of Gunnysack Creek and Box Elder Creek; southwesterly along the divide between Gunnysack Creek and Box Elder Creek to the divide between Curry Creek and Box Elder Creek; southerly along said divide to USFS Road 660; westerly along said road to the Squaw Springs Trail; southerly along said road to the Bates Creek Road (Natrona County Road 402); westerly along said road to the divide between Bates Creek and Spring Creek; westerly and southerly along said divide to the divide between Spring Creek and Lone Tree Creek; westerly and southerly along said divide to Wyoming Highway 487; northerly and westerly along said highway to Wyoming Highway 220; northerly and easterly along said highway to the Casper city limits; northerly along said city limits to the North Platte River; easterly along said river to Box Elder Creek.
By:
MARY FLITNER PRESIDENT
Dated: July 11, 1995