Game and fish-wolf management-2.

WORKING DRAFT
2007
STATE OF
WYOMING
07LSO-0694

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0328

Game and fish-wolf management-2.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Simpson and Cohee

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to game and fish; providing for aggressive management of wolves; providing for monitoring of wolf population and movements; providing for waiver of license fees; providing for rules and regulations; providing for an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.
W.S. 23
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304(d) and by creating a new subsection (g) is amended to read:

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304.

Classification of gray wolves.

(d)

The department shall institute and maintain an active program of population monitoring statewide.
Population monitoring shall include the use of global positioning systems and radio collaring of gray wolves, including use of aerial tracking, necessary to accurately determine the population and movement of gray wolves in the state. The commission is authorized to enter into memoranda of understanding with the United States fish and wildlife service or other federal agencies to fund the purchase of the necessary technology and to ensure accurate and adequate monitoring of wolf population levels and movements through global positioning systems and radio collar tracking.
In all areas of the state, except where otherwise provided, any person who harvests a wolf shall notify the department where the harvest occurred within ten (10) days. Any information regarding the number or nature of wolves legally harvested within the state of
Wyoming
shall only be released in its aggregate form and no information of a private or confidential nature shall be released without the written consent of the person to whom the information may refer. Information identifying any person legally harvesting a wolf within this state is solely for the use of the department or appropriate law enforcement offices and is not a public record for purposes of W.S. 16
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201 through 16
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205.

(g)

The commission is authorized, through rule and regulation, to use aggressive management techniques with gray wolves, including setting liberal seasons and bag limits, within the area designated in W.S. 23
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101(a)(xii)(B)(II) to limit the population of gray wolves to the population designated in paragraph (b)(ii) of this section. Aggressive management techniques may include the use of aerial hunting and hazing by the department and waiver of license fees to landowners within the area designated in W.S. 23
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101(a)(xii)(B)(I).

Section 2.

There is appropriated two million four hundred thousand dollars ($2,400,000.00) from the general fund to the game and fish commission for the period beginning July 1, 2007 and ending June 30, 2008 for purposes of this act.

Section 3.

Th
is act is effective July 1, 2007.

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