Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 010 - Agriculture, Dept. of
Sub-Agency 0013 - Gray Wolf Depredation Compensation
Chapter 56 - GRAY WOLF DEPREDATION COMPENSATION PROGRAM
Section 56-3 - Definitions

(a) "Award" means compensation for damage offered to a claimant by the Department.

(b) "Claim" means a Gray Wolf Animal Damage Claim Affidavit that has been signed by the claimant and notarized that has been filed with the Department and contains all information required in Section 5 of this regulation.

(c) "Claimant" means any landowner, lessee or agent whose livestock have been damaged or killed by a gray wolf.

(d) "Consequential damages" means damage, loss, or injury that does not flow directly and immediately from the act of the gray wolf, but only from some of the consequences or results of such act. Consequential damages include, but are not necessarily limited to, future or anticipated production (except as otherwise provided in this regulation for young of the year livestock), sentimental value, and labor or equipment costs to remove damaged property.

(e) "Damage" means actual damage to livestock that is caused by a gray wolf and sworn by the claimant on the claim to have occurred. Damage shall include death to livestock due to a gray wolf, severe injury by a gray wolf that the livestock will not recover from and the livestock must be put down, and severe injury by a gray wolf that requires veterinary expense that shall not exceed the value of the livestock. Damage shall not include damage to other real or personal property including, but not necessarily limited to: other vegetation or animals; motor vehicles; structures; damages caused by animals other than a gray wolf; diseases; lost profits; consequential damages; or, any other damages whatsoever that are not specified in this regulation.

(f) "Department" means the Wyoming Department of Agriculture, 2219 Carey Avenue, Cheyenne, WY 82002.

(g) "Director" means the Director of the Wyoming Department of Agriculture or his designated representative.

(h) "Lessee" means a person who leases fee title land or State land for agricultural purposes.

(i) "Value of livestock" means the monetary value of individual livestock on the date the verified claim was filed with the Office of the Department based upon the fair market value on that date for like livestock at a rate substantiated by a livestock sales barn or other credible written valuation of the livestock provided by the claimant. However, the monetary value of young of the year livestock on the date the verified claim was filed with the Office of the Department shall be based upon the fair market value on that date for like livestock at the weaning weight substantiated by a livestock sales barn or other credible written valuation of the livestock provided by the claimant.

(j) "WS" means the federal agency, USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services that provides gray wolf control in Wyoming, as authorized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.