Wyoming Canned Hunting Statutes and Regulations

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Statute

Wyoming law authorizes the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to "issue licenses for game bird farms, and for the propagation, breeding, possession, use, releasing, killing, hunting, and sale of licensed birds therefrom." W.S.A. 23-5-102.

State law explicitly prohibits "private ownership of live animals classified ... as big or trophy game animals." §23-1-103.

Moreover, the importation and sale of "any living antelope, bear, deer, elk, moose, mountain goat, mountain lion, bighorn sheep, wolf, wolf hybrid nor any living wildlife" is strictly prohibited. §23-3-301.

Regulation

In response to a request for regulations pertaining to the establishment and operation of shooting preserves, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department provided a copy of W.S.A. §23-1-103, which states that "there shall be no private ownership of live animals classified in this act as big or trophy game animals." 

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