8 CCR 1201-12 Part 1 - DEFINITIONS

1.1. "Agricultural product" means any plants or animals produced in farming or ranching, including, but not limited to, horticultural, floricultural, viticultural, aquacultural, forestry and vegetable products, dairy, livestock, bees and honey.

1.2. "Agricultural resource" means any natural resource relevant to agriculture, including, but not limited to, land, water and the conveyances of water, soil, and growing plants.

1.3. "Animal" means coyotes, foxes, bobcats, bears, mountain lions, wolves, beavers, muskrats, raccoons, opossums, and striped skunks, as set forth at § 35-40-100.2(1), C.R.S.

1.4. "At risk" means any animal, as defined in § 35-40-100.2(1), C.R.S., that has been designated by the Parks and Wildlife Commission as endangered, threatened, or at risk, pursuant to § 35-40-100.2 (1.5) (a), (b), and (c), C.R.S.

1.5. "Body grip device" means a mechanical device designed to kill an animal quickly upon capture.

1.6. "Cable device trap, aka, snare" means any powered or non-powered device made of stranded steel cable set in a manner that a loop of cable encircles the animal's body or limb to achieve capture.

1.7. "Carcass" means the meat and internal organs of game wildlife and domestic animals and does not include bones, hides, or other nonedible parts.

1.8. "Commissioner" means the Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture or an employee of the Department as designated by the Commissioner.

1.9. "Coursing dog" means a dog that pursues primarily by sight.

1.10. "CPW" means the Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife.

1.11. "Decoy dog" means a dog used to distract or lure depredating animals.

1.12. "Department" means the Colorado Department of Agriculture.

1.13. "Drag" means an object attached to a trap to retard the movement of a trap and to detain an animal.

1.14. "Employee" means a person hired or retained by, or under a written or oral contract or cooperative agreement with, a property owner, operator, or lessee to perform services of any kind. An employee may include, among others, the Wildlife Services, the Department, or any other government agency.

1.15. "Enclosed foothold trap" means any mechanical device designed to encapsulate and hold an animal's foot. These foot-encapsulating devices are highly species-selective by design.

1.16. "Feral swine" means any species or hybrid of species from the family Suidae (European boar, Eurasian boar, Russian boar, feral hog) or the family Tayassuidae (Javelina and peccary), which possesses one or more morphological characteristic distinguishing it from domestic swine including, but not limited to, an elongated snout, visible tusks, muscular shoulders with small hams and short loins, coarse hair, or a predominant ridge of hair along its back. For the purposes of these Rules, any swine running at large that possesses one or more of the above characteristics, may be presumed to be a feral hog, unless a person has received actual notice that the swine has escaped containment and its return is actively sought.

1.17. "Foothold trap, aka, leghold trap" means any mechanical device with jaws designed to catch an animal by the foot.

1.18. "Group of animals" means more than a singular animal but not more than a local depredating population of that species. This definition shall not be construed to include an entire species across a county, region or the state.

1.19. "Guard dog" means a dog utilized to protect livestock.

1.20. "Historically occurred" means damage that has occurred within the past five years by the same species of depredating animal to the same agricultural product or agricultural resource in a given geographic area.

1.21. "Identified designee" means a person as specified in Part 2, who is authorized by the property owner, operator, or lessee to control depredating animals.

1.22. "Lethal cable device trap" means a cable device trap designed to kill an animal upon capture.

1.23. "Livestock" means cattle, sheep, goats, swine, mules, poultry, horses, alternative livestock as defined in § 35-41.5-102(1), C.R.S., and such domesticated animals as fox, mink, marten, chinchilla, beaver, and rabbits, and all other animals raised or kept for profit.

1.24. "Live trap (cage or box)" means a mechanical device designed in such a manner that the animal enters the trap through an opening that prevents the animal from exiting.

1.25. "Mechanical or spring-powered cable device trap" means a mechanically or spring-powered device that assists in tightening the loop of the cable around the body, foot, or leg of an animal.

1.26. "Necessary to prevent" means when, due to the proximity and known conduct or behavior of the depredating species, taking of the depredating animal is necessary to prevent damage to agricultural products that is likely to occur as a result of the depredating animal.

1.27. "Nonlethal cable device trap" means a cable device trap with a stopping device designed to prevent strangulation of the species for which the cable device trap is set, or a mechanical or spring-powered cable device trap designed to catch the animal by the body, foot, or leg.

1.28. "Non-target" means an animal of a species not intended to be taken.

1.29. "Pan tension" means the amount of pressure required to activate a trap, as measured at the center of the pan.

1.30. "Predacide" means a state and federally registered pesticide designed to kill predators, but does not include repellents.

1.31. "Stake" means a device that anchors a trap in place.

1.32. "Trailing dog" means a dog that pursues primarily by smell.

1.33. "Traps specifically designed not to kill" means padded, laminated, or off-set steel jawed foothold traps, enclosed foothold, box traps, cage traps, and nonlethal cable device traps as conditioned elsewhere in these regulations.

1.34. "Wildlife Services" means the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services.

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8 CCR 1201-12 Part 1

41 CR 23, December 10, 2018, effective 12/30/2018 43 CR 13, July 10, 2020, effective 7/30/2020