HunterManagementAreaBoundaries

This data set represents the 2025 hunting season Hunter Management Area boundaries for Wyoming. Hunter Management Areas consist of private land where the owners have given permission for a certain number of hunters to access the land for hunting a specific species. These areas can change at any time. The areas, permission process, and ranch rules are managed and enforced by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. Data resides in ArcGIS Online where it is accessible to the Access Yes coordinators; they may create, delete, or update the spatial or attribute information at any time. However, at a minimum, the dataset is updated annually in June by these coordinators and then the tabular data is reviewed by the GIS workgroup. The dataset is then published to our distribution sites for standalone public access in July each year by the GIS workgroup, in addition to being uploaded into the Hunter Management Areas application. If a change is made after this initial publication that impacts the public's proper understanding and use of the data (a change to the spatial component, a change to dates of access, etc.), the update will be re-published. This paragraph is intended to reflect a broad workflow and to negate the need for individual Process Steps detailing each and every change made every year to this dataset, which would be overwhelming given the short-term agreements on which access is based. Due to the nature of how the spatial data is created, it should be understood that there are likely to be topological inconsistencies inherent to the dataset.