CSV.1.3.060 Use of Poison and Explosives

(a) No member or non-member shall take, capture, or kill or attempt to take, capture or kill any wild animal with the aid of dynamite or any other explosive or poisonous or stupefying substances or devices.

(b) No member or non-member shall place in any reservation waters explosives which might cause the destruction of any wild animal, except when authorized by the tribal conservation department, or have in his or her possession or under his or her control upon any reservation waters any dynamite or other explosives or poisonous or stupefying substances or devices for the purpose of taking, catching or killing wild animals.

(c) No member or non-member shall use, set, lay or prepare in any reservation waters any lime, poison, fish berries, or any other substance deleterious to fish life; or use baits containing poison of any description in any reservation forests, fields or other places where such baits might destroy or cause the destruction of wild animals; and the possession of any such poison, poison baits or substances deleterious to wild animals by a member or non-member while harvesting any resource on the reservation is prima facie evidence of a violation of this section.

(d) Nothing in this ordinance shall prohibit the tribal conservation department or its designated agents from using explosives or having explosives in its possession for the purpose of removing beaver dams, clearing a channel, or breaking a log or ice jam.