(a)The ADMB is responsible for the formulation of the
damage prevention management policy of the state, and by and
through an executed memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the
Wyoming game and fish commission is responsible for management
of rabid wildlife, crop, livestock and wildlife damage done by
depredating animals and wildlife damage by predatory animals and
predacious birds. The ADMB in conjunction with its
responsibility may, consistent with the Wyoming Administrative
Procedure Act adopt rules to implement policies administered by
the ADMB. After consultation with the livestock board and the
department of health, the ADMB shall promulgate rules pertaining
to rabies prevention in wildlife including surveillance, public
education, vaccination protocol, post-exposure procedures and
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(a) The ADMB is responsible for the formulation of the
damage prevention management policy of the state, and by and
through an executed memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the
Wyoming game and fish commission is responsible for management
of rabid wildlife, crop, livestock and wildlife damage done by
depredating animals and wildlife damage by predatory animals and
predacious birds. The ADMB in conjunction with its
responsibility may, consistent with the Wyoming Administrative
Procedure Act adopt rules to implement policies administered by
the ADMB. After consultation with the livestock board and the
department of health, the ADMB shall promulgate rules pertaining
to rabies prevention in wildlife including surveillance, public
education, vaccination protocol, post-exposure procedures and
quarantines. The ADMB may enter into the agreements with law
enforcing agencies to carry out the quarantine provisions.
Nothing in this article shall preempt the Wyoming game and fish
commission authority to manage wildlife or determine damage
pursuant to any provision in title 23.
(b) In its deliberations the ADMB shall:
(i) Entertain requests for assistance in order to
allow mitigation of predator damage;
(ii) Specify programs designed to prevent damage by
predatory animals, rabid wildlife, predacious birds and
depredating animals to livestock, agricultural crops, wildlife,
property, human health and safety;
(iii) Provide various degrees of predatory animal,
predacious bird and depredating animal damage management
services to individual agricultural livestock and crop
producers, landowners, lessors or administrators, and to urban,
residential and industrial property owners. Damage management
services shall also be provided and conducted for the benefit of
wildlife populations and human health and safety;
(iv) Specify methods for the prevention and
management of damage and for the selective control of predatory
animals, rabid wildlife, predacious birds and depredating
animals;
(v) Maintain responsibility and appropriate funds for
the purpose of providing damage prevention and management to
agricultural livestock and crops, wildlife, property and human
health and safety caused by predatory animals, rabid wildlife,
predacious birds and depredating animals;
(vi) Cooperate with federal, state and county
governments, educational institutions and private persons or
organizations to effectuate agricultural and wildlife damage and
rabid wildlife prevention policies;
(vii) Develop memorandums of understanding between
the Wyoming department of agriculture and the Wyoming game and
fish commission and the United States department of agriculture,
animal and plant health inspection service, wildlife services
(USDA/APHIS/WS) to accommodate funding sources and
administrative guidelines for the program and may contract
directly with federal or state agencies, boards of county
commissioners, predator management districts or other
organizations or associations to coordinate predator control
services;
(viii) Consider any recommendations received from the
Wyoming game and fish commission and the Wyoming department of
agriculture.
(c) The ADMB shall conduct meetings in accordance with its
established policy, but shall meet at least once each year in
the month of January.
(d) The ADMB may adopt rules and regulations necessary for
carrying out the purpose and provisions of this article. The
ADMB may appoint employees and assistants as necessary and fix
their compensation. The ADMB may enter into cooperative
agreements with boards of county commissioners, predator
management districts, federal or state agencies or other
commissions, organizations or associations for the purpose of
managing predatory animals, rabid wildlife, predacious birds and
depredating animals. Predator management district boards which
choose not to enter into a cooperative agreement with the ADMB
shall not be precluded from continuing with, or entering into, a
cooperative agreement or memorandum of understanding with the
United States department of agriculture, animal and plant health
inspection service, wildlife services (USDA/APHIS/WS), other
entities of government, organizations or associations. This act
is not intended and shall not replace, rescind, modify nor
cancel cooperative agreements or cooperative service agreements
between the USDA/APHIS/WS and the county predator management
districts created under W.S. 11-6-201 through 11-6-210.
(e) The ADMB may elect to provide various degrees of
predator damage management services to any other person pursuant
to a separately negotiated cooperative agreement.
(f) The board shall investigate, test and refine the
concept and practices of integrated predator management. The
board shall develop and establish measurable goals and
objectives. The board shall report to the governor and the joint
agriculture, public lands and water resources interim committee
and joint appropriations interim committee on or before November
30 of each year to determine the progress the board has made
toward achieving the goals and objectives it has established.
The report shall also include actions taken, the accomplishments
and state monies expended by each county predator management
board participating in state funding.