Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission
Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations
Chapter 56 - REGULATION GOVERNING LETHAL TAKING OF WILDLIFE
Section 56-3 - When the Taking is Necessary

(a) There exists a threat to human life, health, or safety.

(b) Wildlife has sustained an injury or contracted a disease or parasite which is life threatening to the individual animal or the wildlife population.

(c) Authorized Department management or wildlife depredation prevention activities require such action.

(d) Authorized research, scientific studies or education require such action.

(e) Wildlife has been physiologically distressed due to causes such as starvation, dehydration, hypothermia, or exhaustion and the condition is life threatening.

(f) Damage is being done to private property by the wildlife listed in W.S. § 23-3-114 and § 23-3-115; and the wildlife may be taken if the landowner, lessee of state lands or employee of the landowner requests assistance or the Department determines the same wildlife are creating similar problems on public land.

(g) A law enforcement investigation, which has been approved in advance by the Chief Game Warden, requires such action by a law enforcement officer participating in the investigation.

(h) Live wildlife has been seized as evidence or has been captured for research and it is believed the wildlife could not survive if returned to the wild or would be a threat to other wildlife.

(i) Harvest of wildlife is necessary to meet Department management objectives, but it is not practical to utilize licensed hunters due to Department concerns for public safety or damage to property.

(j) Reduction of wildlife numbers will assist other wildlife populations to meet management objectives.

(k) Wildlife has been imported into Wyoming or exists in Wyoming in conflict with State statute or Commission regulations, constitutes a threat to Wyoming's wildlife resource, or to protect Wyoming's wildlife resource from disease or hybridization.