Utah Admin. Code R657-33-9 - Prohibited Methods
(1) Bear may be
taken or pursued only during open seasons and using methods prescribed in this
rule and the guidebook of the Wildlife Board for taking and pursuing bear.
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 bear.
(2)
(a) A
person may not pursue a single bear in repeated pursuits such that it renders
the bear physically unable to escape.
(b) After a bear has been pursued, chased,
treed, cornered, legally baited or held at bay, a person may not, in any
manner, restrict or hinder the animal's ability to escape.
(c) A person must make reasonable efforts to
call dogs off a bear 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)
(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 bear; or
(c) engage in the
storage and sale or purchase of stored media, including images, video,
location, time, or date data to take, attempt to take, or aid in the take or
attempted take of bear.
(6)
(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 bear 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."
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