TITLE 36

FISH AND GAME

CHAPTER 5

RESTRICTIONS ON POSSESSION, TRANSPORTATION, SALE AND USE OF WILDLIFE

36-507.  SEASONAL RESTRICTIONS ON POSSESSION, TRANSPORTATION, AND COLLECTION OF ANTLERS AND HORNS TO PROTECT WINTERING BIG GAME. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the commission may, by rule or proclamation embodying its findings in respect to a need for activity restrictions by time and place and in accordance with season setting provisions identified in section 36-104(b), Idaho Code, provide seasonal restrictions on the possession and transportation of shed antlers or horns from deer, elk, moose, and pronghorn and antlers or horns from deer, elk, moose, bighorn sheep, and pronghorn that have died from natural causes. The commission may restrict the acts of searching for, locating, or gathering antlers or horns under this section. Such seasonal restrictions shall be intended to protect wintering big game.

(2)  These restrictions shall not apply to a person who is a private landowner or his designee on land leased or owned by that person.

(3)  The commission may promulgate rules to implement the provisions of this section.

History:

[36-507, added 2023, ch. 166, sec. 1, p. 448.]