CSV.2.3.050 Use of Poison and Explosives; Pole Traps

(a) No 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 shall place in any off-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 off-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 shall use, set, lay or prepare in any off-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 off-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 while exercising off-reservation treaty rights regulated by this ordinances is prima facie evidence of a violation of this section.

(d) No member shall take, capture or kill or attempt to take capture or kill any bird by setting or operating any trap or device designed, built or used to capture birds on a pole, post, tree stump or any other elevated perch more than three (3) feet above the ground.

(e) 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.