(d) That any person exercising any of the privileges granted by this section shall permit at all reasonable times, including during actual operations, any Federal or State game or deputy game agent, warden, protector, or other law enforcement officer free and unrestricted access over the premises on which such operations have been or are being conducted; and shall furnish promptly to such officer whatever information he may require, concerning said operations. Landowners, sharecroppers, tenants, or their employees or agents actually engaged in the production of nut crops in Washington and Oregon may, without a permit, take California scrub jays (Aphelocoma californica) and Steller's jays (Cyanocitta stelleri) when found committing or about to commit serious depredations to nut crops on the premises owned or occupied by such persons: Provided: (a) That California scrub jays and Steller's jays may only be taken pursuant to this section between August 1 and December 1 in any year, in the Washington counties of Clark, Cowlitz, and Lewis; and the Oregon counties of Benton, Clackamas, Lane, Linn, Marion, Multnomah, Polk, Washington, and Yamhill. Additional information: Applicants must be in compliance with and have met the criteria outlined in ARS 17-239 prior to issuance of a Small Game Depredation Permit. 1018-0146. (3) If you use firearms to control purple swamphens under this regulation, you may use only nontoxic shot or nontoxic bullets for the control. (9) Nothing in this section applies to any Federal land without written permission of the Federal agency with jurisdiction. permit availability: West End General Elk tags will be issued by Special Draw (refer to Section A1.D2.). Reward Payments life Without an Arizona License or Permit R12-4-406. For purposes of 13.29(e), appeals must be made to the Director. (e) Can the depredation order be suspended? You may donate carcasses, nests, or nest contents taken under this control order to public museums or public institutions for scientific or educational purposes or to persons authorized by permit or regulation to possess them. We may not conduct or sponsor, and you are not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. Except when using an air rifle or an air pistol, if firearms are used to kill migratory birds under the provisions of this regulation, the shooter must use nontoxic shot or nontoxic bullets to do so. Any specimens needed for scientific purposes as determined by the Regional Director must not be destroyed, and information on birds carrying metal leg bands must be submitted to the Bird Banding Laboratory by means of a toll-free telephone number at 1-800-327-BAND (or 2263). Any county official acting under this depredation order must provide an annual report to the Regional Migratory Bird Permit Office using FWS Form 3-202-20-2144. (b) Use of nonlethal control. (3) If you operate under this order, you must immediately report the take of any species protected under the Endangered Species Act, or any other bird species protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, to the Fish and Wildlife Service Ecological Services Office for the State or location in which the take occurred. (e) What are the restrictions of the public health depredation order for resident Canada geese? (k) Revocation of authority to operate under this order. (3) Permittees may not use blinds, pits, or other means of concealment, decoys, duck calls, or other devices to lure or entice birds within gun range. Further, to protect certain species from being adversely affected by management actions, airports and military airfields must: (i) Follow the Federal-State Contingency Plan for the whooping crane; (ii) Conduct no activities within 300 meters of a whooping crane or Mississippi sandhill crane nest; (iii) Follow all Regional (or National when available) Bald Eagle Nesting Management guidelines for all management activities; (iv) Contact the Arizona Ecological Services Office (for the Colorado River and Arizona sites) or the Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife Office (for Salton Sea sites) if control activities are proposed in or around occupied habitats (cattail or cattail bulrush marshes) to discuss the proposed activity and ensure that implementation will not adversely affect clapper rails or their habitats; and. Persons operating under this order must immediately report the take of any species protected under the Endangered Species Act to the Service. 21.52 - Public health control order for resident Canada geese. (a) Permit requirement. (ii) Base control methods on sound biological, environmental, social, and cultural factors. (E) Plants: Butte County meadowfoam, large-flowered wooly meadowfoam, Cook's lomatium, Contra Costa goldfields, Hoover's spurge, fleshy owl's clover, Colusa grass, hairy Orcutt grass, Solano grass, Greene's tuctoria, Sacramento Valley Orcutt grass, San Joaquin Valley Orcutt grass, slender Orcutt grass, California Orcutt grass, spreading navarretia, and San Jacinto Valley crownscale. (4) Airports and military airfields and their employees and agents may possess, transport, and otherwise dispose of resident Canada geese taken under this section. Horned larks (Eremophila alpestris), house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus), and white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys) may be taken in Fresno, Merced, Napa, and Sonoma Counties in California if they are depredating on agricultural or horticultural crops. You must obtain appropriate landowner permission before conducting activities authorized by this order. (e) Relationship to other regulations. (e) Can the control order be suspended? (2) Authorized agricultural producers should use nonlethal goose management tools to the extent they deem appropriate. The public health control order for resident Canada geese is subject to the following restrictions: (1) Authorized State and Tribal wildlife agencies should use nonlethal goose management tools to the extent they deem appropriate. However, this requirement does not apply to Federal, State, or Tribal employees conducting brown-headed cowbird trapping to protect a species recognized by the Federal Government, a State, or a Tribe as endangered, threatened, candidate, or of special concern. (11) Nothing in this section applies to any Federal land without written permission of the Federal agency with jurisdiction. (e) Access to control efforts. (b) Conditions under which control is allowed by private citizens. Source: Each application must contain the general information and certification required in 13.12(a) of this subchapter, and the following additional information: (1) A description of the area where depredations are occurring; (2) The nature of the crops or other interests being injured; (4) The particular species of migratory birds committing the injury. See 20.21(j) of this chapter for a listing of approved nontoxic shot types. The airport control order for resident Canada geese is subject to the following restrictions: (1) Airports and military airfields should use nonlethal goose management tools to the extent they deem appropriate. Lethal take may occur by firearm or slingshot in accordance with paragraph (c)(2) of this section or lethal or live traps. Issuance of Nonpermit-tags and Hunt Permit-tags R12-4-115. (4) If, while operating under this regulation, an authorized person takes any other species protected under the Endangered Species Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, or the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, that person must immediately report the take to the nearest Ecological Services office of the Fish and Wildlife Service. (3) Eggs must be oiled with 100 percent corn oil, which is exempted from regulation under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (iii) Follow all Regional (or National when available) Bald Eagle Nesting Management guidelines for all management activities. 21.49 - Control order for resident Canada geese at airports and military airfields. Registrants authorized to operate under the program may not sell, offer for sale, barter, or ship for the purpose of sale or barter any resident Canada goose nest or egg taken under this section. Casetext, Inc. and Casetext are not a law firm and do not provide legal advice. These data represent the least number of permits issued to take a mountain lion and the least number of mountain lions taken under depredation permits in a given county in a Section R12-4-113 - [Effective 7/1/2021]Small Game Depredation Permit A. (d) What are the restrictions of the depredation order for resident Canada geese at agricultural facilities? 17-239(A), (B), and (C) have been exhausted and the take of the small game is necessary to alleviate the property damage. Airports/military airfields, their employees, and designated agents may not sell, offer for sale, barter, or ship for the purpose of sale or barter any resident Canada geese taken under this section, nor their plumage or eggs. (c) Who may participate in the depredation order? (iii) All techniques used must be in accordance with other Federal, State, and local laws, and their use must comply with any labeling restrictions. See 20.21(j) of this chapter for a listing of approved nontoxic shot types. (a) Permit requirement. (1) You must comply with any State, territorial, or Tribal laws or regulations governing the removal or destruction of muscovy ducks or their nests or eggs. (1) Federal Aviation Administration; (3) Hawaii Department of Lands and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife; (4) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; (6) U.S. Department of Agriculture - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services; (10) University of Hawaii - Pacific Cooperative Studies Units with program mandates to accomplish invasive species eradication and control, including the five island Invasive Species Committees. (d) Who may participate in the program? When all of the above is added into the fact that Arizona restricts the number of hunters who can chase those elk every year, and you have nothing short of big-elk heaven. Submit annual reports to the Pacific Region Migratory Bird Permit Office in Portland, Oregon, at the address shown at 50 CFR 2.2. In this section, the word you means a person operating officially as an employee of one of the authorized agencies. (7) You must report captures of nontarget federally protected migratory birds in your annual report (see paragraph (i) of this section). (v) Persons using egg oiling must use 100 percent corn oil, a substance exempted from regulation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. A class F,G or H hunting license is required to shoot cottontails. The U.S. You do not need a Federal permit to control the species listed in paragraph (a) of this section in the following circumstances: (1) Where they are causing serious injuries to agricultural or horticultural crops or to livestock feed; (2) When they cause a health hazard or structural property damage; (3) To protect a species recognized by the Federal Government as an endangered, threatened, or candidate species in any county in which it occurs, as shown in the Service's Environmental Conservation Online System (http://ecos.fws.gov); (4) To protect a species recognized by the Federal Government as an endangered or threatened species in designated critical habitat for the species; or. Multiple reports within agencies may be combined, as appropriate. (c) With respect to wild pigs, the department shall provide an applicant for a depredation permit to take wild pigs or a person who reports taking wild pigs pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 4181.1 with written information that sets forth available options for wild pig control, including, but not limited to, depredation permits If you use a firearm to kill muscovy ducks under the provisions of this section, you must use nontoxic shot or nontoxic bullets to do so. (a) Which Canada geese are covered by this order? Current through Register Vol. Further, to protect certain species from being adversely affected by management actions, registrants must: (e) Can the depredation order be suspended? The county agriculture commissioner must confirm that nonlethal measures have been undertaken to control or eliminate the problem prior to the landowner using lethal control. None of the above migratory birds killed, or the parts thereof, or the plumage of such birds, may be sold or removed from the area where killed. This website provides the public an opportunity to gain an understanding of observations relevant to the conservation of the jaguar in northern Mexico and the United States of America. 15, April 9, 2021. (5) Only persons named on the permit are authorized to act as agents of the permittee under authority of the permit. You must comply with the following conditions if you attempt to trap any species under this order. This regulation addresses the control and management of resident Canada geese, as defined in 21.3. Easily fill out PDF blank, edit, and sign them. To report wildlife violations, call: 800-352-0700. (h) Endangered or threatened species. (c) Ammunition. You do not need a Federal permit to control the species listed in paragraph (a) of this section in the following circumstances: (2) When they cause a health hazard or structural property damage; or. Disposal of birds taken under this order may be by donation to public museums or public institutions for scientific or educational purposes, processing for human consumption and subsequent distribution free of charge to charitable organizations, or burial or incineration. The nest and egg depredation order for resident Canada geese authorizes private landowners and managers of public lands (landowners); homeowners' associations; and village, town, municipality, and county governments (local governments); and the employees or agents of any of these persons or entities to destroy resident Canada goose nests and eggs on property under their jurisdiction when necessary to resolve or prevent injury to people, property, agricultural crops, or other interests. To minimize lethal take, airports and military airfields should follow this procedure: (i) Assess the problem to determine its extent or magnitude, its impact on current operations, and the appropriate control method to be used. The resident Canada goose nest and egg depredation order is subject to the following restrictions: (1) Before any management actions can be taken, landowners, homeowners' associations, and local governments must register with the Service at https://epermits.fws.gov/eRCGR. In all cases, we will annually review the necessity and effectiveness of the depredation order. (4) Each calendar year, you must attempt to control depredation by species listed under this depredation order using nonlethal methods before you may use lethal control. Disposal of birds taken under this order may be by donation to public museums or public institutions for scientific or educational purposes, processing for human consumption and subsequent distribution free of charge to charitable organizations, or burial or incineration. (d) Ammunition. (2) You must check each trap at least once every day it is deployed. (6) If a federally permitted wildlife rehabilitator is within 1 hour or less of your capture efforts, you must send injured or debilitated nontarget federally protected migratory birds to the rehabilitator. The criteria and procedures for suspension, revocation, reconsideration, and appeal are outlined in 13.27 through 13.29 of this subchapter. (c) What is a direct threat to human health? Except as provided in 21.43, 21.44, and 21.46, a depredation permit is required before any person may take, possess, or transport migratory birds for depredation control purposes. (b) What is the control order for resident Canada geese at airports, and what is its purpose? NEW: PAPER hunt permit application deadline is Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. Arizona time. Applicable Arizona Rules R12-4-113, R12-4-304, R12-4-318. The criteria and procedures for suspension, revocation, reconsideration, and appeal are outlined in 13.27 through 13.29 of this subchapter. (c) Who may participate in the program? If you suspect a wolf depredation: Immediately contact the Interagency Field Team at 928/339- 4329 [or 623/236-7201 after hours/ weekends] to report the suspected wolf depredation and request an investigation by USDA Wildlife Services. Under 50 C.F.R. Except as provided in 21.42 through 21.46, a depredation permit is required before any person may take, possess, or transport migratory birds for depredation control purposes. This decision was made after Schuler provided drone footage of severe crop destruction at a September public hearing of the (4) We reserve the right to suspend or revoke the authority of any agency or individual to undertake muscovy duck control if we find that the agency or individual has undertaken actions that may harm Federally listed threatened or endangered species or are contrary to the provisions of this part. A depredation permit is required for trapping any nuisance or damage causing wildlife. Depredation permits for state regulated species may be obtained from the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AGFD). In particular, the purple swamphen resembles the native purple gallinule (Porphyrula martinica). Birds may be euthanized by cervical dislocation, CO2 asphyxiation, or other recommended method in the American Veterinary Medical Association Guidelines on Euthanasia. (b) Authorized agencies. 21.54 - Control order for muscovy ducks in the United States. However, this prohibition does not apply if you use an air rifle or an air pistol for control of depredating birds. (7) Authorized agricultural producers, and their employees and agents, operating under the provisions of this section may not use decoys, calls, or other devices to lure birds within gun range. A direct threat to human health is one where a Federal, State, Tribal, or local public health agency has determined that resident Canada geese pose a specific, immediate human health threat by creating conditions conducive to the transmission of human or zoonotic pathogens. Moreover, this section does not authorize the killing of any migratory bird species or destruction of their nest or eggs other than resident Canada geese. Wildlife rehabilitators, veterinarians, and all other individuals or agencies who receive sick, injured, or orphaned cattle egrets or barn owls are prohibited from releasing any individuals of those species back into the wild in the State of Hawaii, the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, or the unincorporated territory of Midway Atoll. Any specimens needed for scientific purposes as determined by the Regional Director must not be destroyed, and information on birds carrying metal leg bands must be submitted to the Bird Banding Laboratory by means of a toll-free telephone number at 1-800-327-BAND (or 2263). You may purchase Arizona hunting licenses and apply for the draw online. (iv) Implement all appropriate nonlethal management techniques (such as harassment and habitat modification) in conjunction with take authorized under this order. Restricted Live Wildlife R12-4-407. Persons operating under this order must immediately report the take of any species protected under the Endangered Species Act to the Service. Final decisions to revoke authority will be made by the appropriate Regional Director. The special depredation permit is a result of pressure from State Senator Steve Erdman, who requested the unique arrangement on behalf of (c) Additional permit conditions. (c) Conditions under which control is allowed by Federal, State, and Tribal employees. (7) No person conducting activities under this section should construe the program as authorizing the killing of resident Canada geese or destruction of their nests and eggs contrary to any State law or regulation, nor may any control activities be conducted on any Federal land without specific authorization by the responsible management agency. Applicable Arizona Statutes ARS 17-239. 21.50 - Depredation order for resident Canada geese nests and eggs. (k) Information collection. You do not need a Federal permit for this depredation control as long as you meet the conditions below, but a depredation permit (see 21.41 in this subpart) is required for take of other migratory bird species, or for take of horned larks or white-crowned sparrows from May 1 through October 31. Any person, business, organization, or government official acting under this depredation order must provide an annual report using FWS Form 3-202-21-2143 to the appropriate Regional Migratory Bird Permit Office. We may suspend or revoke the authority of any individual or agency to operate under this order if we find that the individual or agency has taken actions that may take federally listed endangered or threatened species or any other bird species protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (see 50 CFR 10.13 for the list of protected migratory bird species), or has violated any Federal or State law or regulation governing this activity. If not transferred, all carcasses of birds killed under this order must be buried or otherwise destroyed. Additionally, at such time that we determine that resident Canada geese populations no longer pose a threat to agricultural crops or no longer need to be reduced in order to resolve or prevent injury to agricultural crops or other agricultural interests, we may choose to terminate part or all of the depredation order by subsequent regulation. (c) Other provisions. (2) You may not remove or destroy purple swamphens or their nests or eggs if doing so will adversely affect other migratory birds or species designated as endangered or threatened under the authority of the Endangered Species Act. The depredation order for resident Canada geese at agricultural facilities authorizes States and Tribes, via the State or Tribal wildlife agency, to implement a program to allow landowners, operators, and tenants actively engaged in commercial agriculture (agricultural producers) (or their employees or agents) to conduct direct damage management actions such as nest and egg destruction, gosling and adult trapping and culling programs, or other lethal and non-lethal wildlife-damage management strategies on resident Canada geese when the geese are committing depredations to agricultural crops and when necessary to resolve or prevent injury to agricultural crops or other agricultural interests from resident Canada geese.
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