Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Natural Resources
Title R657 - Wildlife Resources
Rule R657-37 - Cooperative Wildlife Management Units for Big Game or Turkey
Section R657-37-7 - Operation by Landowner Association

Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 657-37-7

Current through Bulletin 2024-18, September 15, 2024

(1)

(a) A CWMU must be operated by a landowner association who is represented by a president or a landowner association operator.

(b) A landowner association president or landowner association operator may appoint CWMU agents to protect private property within the CWMU; however, the landowner association president, or landowner association operator must assume ultimate responsibility for the operation of the CWMU.

(2)

(a) A landowner association member or landowner association operator must provide general public CWMU permittees a minimum of:
(i) five full days, each of which beginning 30 minutes before shooting hours, to be in the area the public permittee wants to hunt with their buck, bull or turkey permits; and

(ii) three full days, each of which beginning 30 minutes before shooting hours, to be in the area the public permittee wants to hunt with antlerless permits.

(b) Sunday hunt days may not be included in minimum hunt days except by mutual agreement of the permittee and the operator.

(c) General public CWMU permittees shall be allowed to hunt the entire CWMU during their established season dates, unless areas are deemed closed to both public and private hunters and described in the CWMU Management Plan as closed.

(d) A person who has obtained a CWMU permit may hunt only in the CWMU for which the permit is issued, except as provided under Subsection (2).

(4)

(a) Each landowner association member or landowner association operator must:
(i) clearly post each boundary of the CWMU at all corners, streams crossing property lines, roads, gates, and rights-of-way entering the land with signs that are a minimum of 8 1/2 by 11 inches on a bright yellow background with black lettering, and that contain the language provided in Subsection (b); and

(ii) if a CWMU uses public land for making a definable boundary for the CWMU then that boundary shall be posted every three hundred yards.

(b) Only persons with a valid CWMU permit for the CWMU may hunt moose, deer, elk, pronghorn or turkey within the boundaries of the CWMU.

(c) The general public may use accessible public land portions of the CWMU for legal purposes, other than hunting big game or turkey for which the CWMU is authorized.

(5) A landowner association member or landowner association operator must provide a written copy of its guidelines used to regulate a permit holder's conduct as a guest on the CWMU to each permit holder.

(6)

(a) A CWMU and the division shall cooperatively address the needs of landowners who are negatively impacted by big game animals or turkeys associated with the CWMU.

(b) The CWMU and the division shall cooperatively seek methods to prevent or mitigate agricultural depredation caused by big game animals or turkeys associated with the CWMU.

(7) A landowner association member may not harass or haze wildlife in an effort to retain animals on the CWMU or herd animals onto the CWMU unless:

(a) the division determines that such actions are necessary to mitigate agricultural damage on neighboring lands;

(b) the CWMU is fulfilling their obligations described in their CWMU Management Plan regarding agricultural damage to neighboring landowners; and

(c) the division provides prior written authorization approving the actions of the CMWU.

(8) A landowner association member may not receive depredation payments from the division if any land owned by a landowner association member is enrolled in a CWMU regardless of species.

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