Utah Admin. Code R657-10-8 - Prohibited Methods
(1) Cougar may
be taken or pursued only during open seasons and using methods prescribed in
Rule R657-11, Taking Furbearer and Trapping, and the guidebook of the Wildlife
Board for taking cougar. Otherwise, under Title 23A, the Wildlife Resources
Act, it is unlawful for any person to pursue, possess, capture, kill, injure,
drug, rope, trap, snare or in any way harm or transport cou gar.
(2)
(a) A
person may not pursue a single cougar in repeated pursuits such that it renders
the cougar physically unable to escape.
(b) After a cougar has been pursued, chased,
treed, cornered or held at bay, a person may not, in any manner, restrict or
hinder the animal's ability to escape if the person does not intend to harvest
the cougar.
(c) A person must make
reasonable efforts to call dogs off of a cougar that has been cornered or held
at bay.
(3) A person may
not engage in a canned hunt.
(4) A
person may not take any wildlife from an airplane or any other airborne vehicle
or device or any motorized terrestrial or aquatic vehicle, including
snowmobiles and other recreational vehicles.
(5) Electronic locating equipment may not be
used to locate cougars wearing electronic radio devices. (6)(a) A person may
not place, maintain, or use a trail camera as prohibited in Section
23A-5-307;
(b) engage in the sale or purchase of trail
camera or other non-handheld device media, including images, video, location,
time, or date data to take, attempt to take, or aid in the take or attempted
take of cougar; or
(c) engage in
the storage and sale or purchase of stored media, including image, video,
location, time or date data to take, attempt to take, or aid in the take or
attempted take of cougar.
(7)
(a) A
person may not use any protected gps location data or protected radio collar
data to locate, track, take, or retrieve or any attempt to locate, track, take,
or retrieve cougar or their parts.
(b) For the purposes of this subsection,
"protected" means "a record classified as protected under the Government
Records Access and Management Act, Section
63G-2-305".
Notes
State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compare.
No prior version found.