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 2024-06, March 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 president or landowner association operator may enter
into reciprocal agreements with other landowner association presidents or
landowner association operators to allow hunters who have obtained a CWMU
permit to hunt within each other's CWMUs as provided in Subsection
R657-37-4(3)(a)(xii).
(b) Reciprocal hunting agreements may be
approved only to:
(i) raise funds to address
joint habitat improvement projects;
(ii) address emergency situations limiting
hunting opportunity on a CWMU;
(iii) raise funds to aid in essential
management practices for the benefit of CWMU species, including obtaining age
or species population data as recommended by regional division personnel and
approved by the division's wildlife section chief;
(iv) be used with unused vouchers as provided
in Subsection
R657-37-9(12)(a);
or
(v) be used to achieve
antlerless harvest objectives for big game populations that may migrate across
different CWMUs.
(c) If a
person is authorized to hunt in one or more CWMUs as provided in Subsection
(a), written permission from the landowner association member or landowner
association operator and written authorization from the division must be in the
person's possession while hunting.
(d) The division may identify an individual
to administer and coordinate reciprocal agreements and each expenditure of
funds generated therefrom.
(e) The
division must provide written approval prior to any expenditure of funds
generated from reciprocal agreement permits.
(f) The administrator of the reciprocal
agreement program must provide an annual accounting of proceeds generated from
reciprocal agreement permits and how those funds were spent or
administered.
(3)
(a) A landowner association member or
landowner association operator must provide general public CWMU permittees a
minimum of:
(i) five days to hunt with buck,
bull or turkey permits; and
(ii)
three days 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 corner, fishing stream crossing
property lines, road, gate, and right-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 the purpose of 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.
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