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2022 UPLAND GAME BIRD HUNTING SEASONS
WHAT DOCUMENTS DO I NEED TO HUNT UPLAND GAME BIRDS IN WYOMING?
Resident requirement
Resident daily or 12 month game bird or game bird/small game hunting license (See page 4) No
Hunter Safety Certificate (See page 6)
Wyoming Conservation Stamp (See page 5)
Pheasant Special Management Permit (See page 13)
Nonresident requirement
Nonresident daily or 12 month game bird/small game hunting license
(See page 4)
Nonresident 12 month youth game bird/small game hunting license (See
page 4)
Hunter Safety Certificate (See page 6)
Wyoming Conservation Stamp (See page 5)
Pheasant Special Management Permit (See page 13)
Section 1. Authority.
This regulation is promulgated by authority of Wyoming Statutes § 23-1-302 and §
23-2-105.
Section 2. Hunting Regulations.
(a) Bag and Possession Limit. Only one (1) daily bag limit of each species of upland game
birds and small game may be taken per day regardless of the number of hunt areas hunted
in a single day. When hunting more than one (1) hunt area, a person's daily and possession
limits shall be equal to, but shall not exceed, the largest daily and possession limit
prescribed for any one (1) of the specified hunt areas in which the hunting and possession
occurs.
(b) Evidence of sex and species shall remain naturally attached to the carcass of any upland
game bird in the field and during transportation. For pheasant, this shall include the
feathered head, feathered wing or foot. For all other upland game bird species, this shall
include one fully feathered wing.
(c) No person shall possess or use shot other than nontoxic shot for hunting game birds
and small game with a shotgun on the Commission's Table Mountain and Springer wildlife
habitat management areas and on all national wildlife refuges open for hunting.
(d) Required Clothing. Any person hunting pheasants within the boundaries of any Wyoming
Game and Fish Commission Wildlife Habitat Management Area, or on Bureau of Reclamation
Withdrawal lands bordering and including Glendo State Park, shall wear in a visible manner
at least one (1) outer garment of fluorescent orange or fluorescent pink color which shall
include a hat, shirt, jacket, coat, vest or sweater.
Section 3. Upland Game Bird Hunting Seasons.
(a) Sage Grouse Hunt Areas, Season Dates, Bag Limits and Limitations
Hunt
Area
1
2,3
4
Season Dates
Opens Closes
Sep. 17 Sep. 30 2
Sep. 17 Sep. 19 2
SAGE GROUSE
Bag limit
Daily
4
4
(i) Sage Grouse Hunt Area Descriptions.
Possession
Limitations
Any sage grouse
CLOSED
Any sage grouse
No
No
YES
No
YES
YES
No
YES
Under age 14
No
YES
YES
YES
YES
Under age 14
YES
YES
YES
YES
Ages 14 through 17
YES
No
YES
YES
YES
Area 1. Includes all of Big Horn, Fremont, Hot Springs, Park, Sweetwater, Uinta and
Washakie counties, as well as that portion of Albany County north of U.S. Highway 30287
and west of the Fetterman Road (Albany County Road 61), that portion of Converse
County south and west of the Balsh Road (U.S.F.S. Road 660), all of Carbon County
except that portion east of the Medicine Bow River and South of U.S. Highway 30287,
all of Lincoln and Sublette counties except those portions within the Snake River
drainage, and all of Natrona County except that portion east of Interstate Highway 25.
Area 1 also excludes that portion of Natrona County south of Interstate Highway 25 in
the Muddy Creek drainage.
Area 2. The entire state of Wyoming excluding the lands described in Areas 1, 3 and 4.
Area 3. All lands in the Snake River drainage within Lincoln, Sublette and Teton counties.
Area 4. Beginning at the intersection of the Sheridan-Big Horn county line with the
Wyoming-Montana state line; easterly along said state line to the Rocky Point Road in
Crook County; southerly along said road to the " D " Road; southerly along said road to
Interstate Highway 90; easterly along said highway to U.S. Highway 16 at Moorcroft;
southeasterly along said highway to U.S. Highway 85 at Newcastle; southerly along
said highway to the Weston-Niobrara-Campbell-Converse-Natrona-Johnson county
lines; westerly along said county lines to the Washakie-Johnson-Big Horn-Sheridan
county lines; northerly then northwesterly along said county lines to the WyomingMontana
state line.
(b) Blue (Dusky) Grouse Hunt Areas, Season Dates, Bag Limit and Limitations.
BLUE (DUSKY) GROUSE
Hunt
Area
1
Season Dates
Opens Closes
Sep. 1
Dec. 31 3
Bag limit
Daily
9
(i) Blue (Dusky) Grouse Hunt Area Description.
Area 1. The entire state of Wyoming.
(c) Ruffed Grouse Hunt Areas, Season Dates, Bag Limits and Limitations.
RUFFED GROUSE
Bag limit
Hunt
Area
1
Season Dates
Opens Closes
Sep. 1
Dec. 31 3
Daily
9
(i) Ruffed Grouse Hunt Area Description.
Area 1. The entire state of Wyoming.
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Possession
Limitations
Any ruffed grouse
Possession
Limitations
Any blue (dusky) grouse
Ages 18 and older
Ages 14 and older
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