The Wyoming Animal Damage Management Program was created by the 1999 Legislature and is administered by a 15 member (12 voting, 3 ex-officio non-voting members) board, commonly referred to as the Animal Damage Management Board, or simply the "ADMB".

     The ADMB is established as a pilot project for the purposes of mitigating damage caused to livestock, wildlife and crops by predatory animals, predacious birds and depredating animals or for the protection of human health and safety.

     As a pilot project, the act creating the program and its administrative board "sunsets" on January 1, 2009 and shall be repealed on that date. From the effective time of July 1, 1999 to January 1, 2009, the program authorized shall operate to investigate, test and refine the concept of integrated predator management.

The primary ADMB responsibility and policy is to:

• Formulate the animal damage management policy of the state.

• Adopt rules through the Administrative Procedures act to implement policies administered by the ADMB.

• Entertain requests for assistance in order to allow mitigation of predator damage.

• Specify programs designed to prevent damage by predatory animals, predacious birds, and depredating animals to livestock, crops, wildlife, property, human health and safety.

• Specify methods for the prevention and management of damage and for the selective control of predatory animals, predacious birds, and depredating animals.

• Maintain responsibility and appropriate funds for the purpose of providing damage prevention and management to agricultural livestock and crops, wildlife, property, human health and safety caused by predatory animals, predacious birds, and depredating animals.

• Cooperate with federal, state and county governments, educational institutions and private persons or organizations to effectuate agricultural and wildlife damage prevention policies.

• Develop memorandums of understanding between the Wyoming Department of Agriculture and the Wyoming Game and Fish commission and the United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services to accommodate funding sources and administrative guidelines for the program.

• Consider any recommendations received from the Wyoming game and fish commission and the Wyoming department of agriculture.

• Elect to provide various degrees of predator damage management services to any other person pursuant to a separately negotiated cooperative agreement.