---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 C.F.R. § 261.8"
title: "36"
number: "261.8"
heading: "Fish and wildlife."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/36/261.8"
---

# §261.8. Fish and wildlife.


The following are prohibited to the extent Federal or State law is violated:

- (a) Hunting, trapping, fishing, catching, molesting, killing or having in possession any kind of wild animal, bird, or fish, or taking the eggs of any such bird.
- (b) Possessing a firearm or other implement designed to discharge a missile capable of destroying animal life.
- (c) **Possessing equipment which could be used for hunting, fishing, or trapping.**
- (d) **Possessing a dog not on a leash or otherwise confined.**
- (e) Curtail the free movement of any animal or plant life into or out of a cave, except as authorized to protect a cave resource.

## Notes

### Amendments

[42 FR 2957, Jan. 14, 1977, as amended at 46 FR 33520, June 30, 1981; 59 FR 31152, June 17, 1994]

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1011(f); 16 U.S.C. 460l-6d, 472, 551, 620(f), 1133(c)-(d)(1), 1246(i).

### Source

Source: 42 FR 2957, Jan. 14, 1977, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[42 FR 2957, Jan. 14, 1977, as amended at 46 FR 33520, June 30, 1981; 59 FR 31152, June 17, 1994]