Code of Colorado Regulations
400 - Department of Natural Resources
406 - Colorado Parks and Wildlife (406 Series, Wildlife)
2 CCR 406-17 - CHAPTER W-17 - DAMAGE CAUSED BY WILDLIFE
Article XII - DAMAGE CAUSED BY SMALL GAME AND FURBEARERS
Section 17121 - DEFINITIONS FOR ARTICLES XII-XV
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 17, September 10, 2024
A. "Body Grip Device" means a mechanical device designed to kill an animal quickly upon capture.
B. "Bona fide scientific research" means any research project conducted by the Division or authorized by a scientific collection permit issued by the Division.
C. "Cable Device Trap" means any powered or non-powered device made of stranded steel cable set in a manner that a loop of cable encircles the animal's body or limb.
D. "Canada Lynx Recovery Area" means the area of the San Juan and Rio Grande National Forests and associated lands above 9,000 feet extending west from a north-south line passing through Del Norte and east from a north-south line passing through Dolores and from the New Mexico state line north to the Gunnison basin (including Taylor Park east to the Collegiate Range). The GMUs included in the area are: 55, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 551, 681, 711 and 751.
E. "Designated and marked trails" means any trail on public property or a public trail easement across private lands that has signs to indicate that it is a public trail; is maintained; and has a trail number or designation on a map or brochure published by the government entity who has jurisdiction over the trail.
F. "Drag" means an object attached to a trap to retard the movement of a trap and to detain an animal.
G. "Enclosed Foothold Trap" means any mechanical device designed to encapsulate and hold the animal's foot. These foot encapsulating devices are highly species-selective by design.
H. "Foothold Trap"means any mechanical device with jaws designed to catch an animal by the foot.
I. "Lethal cable device trap" means a cable device trap designed to kill an animal upon capture.
J. "Live Trap (Cage or Box)" means a mechanical device designed in such a manner that the animal enters the trap through an opening that prevents the animal from exiting.
K. "Nonlethal cable device trap"means a cable device trap with a stopping device designed to prevent strangulation of the species for which the cable device trap is set, or a mechanical or spring powered cable device trap designed to catch the animal by the foot or leg.
L. "Pan Tension" means the amount of pressure required to activate a trap, as measured at the center of the pan.
M. "Relocation" means movement of live wildlife captured by a person to another site which is not contiguous to the capture site.
N. "Traps specifically designed not to kill" means padded, laminated, or off-set steel jawed foothold traps, enclosed foothold, box traps, and cage traps, as conditioned elsewhere in these regulations.
