(1) Cooperators in the program may receive various forms of compensation for their participation including, but not limited to, the following:

(a) department oversight and supervision of hunting on a BMA including the development and implementation of a hunter reservation system administered by the department when practical. For cooperators who elect to have the department provide personnel whose primary duty it is to manage hunting on their property, a compensation value will be assigned to those services by the department, with that amount deducted from the total of any monetary compensation for which the cooperator is otherwise eligible under (1) (c) and (2) of this rule;

(b) supplying of permission books or other materials which document hunter use, signs or hunting-season related supplies; and

(c) monetary compensation to offset potential impacts associated with allowing public hunting access. These impacts include, but are not limited to, those identified in 87-1-267(5) , MCA, and time spent dealing with hunters. Payments to cooperators will be made following the close of the use season and the submission of hunter use documents (permission slips, etc.) to the department.

(2) Payments to cooperators will be set by the department, figured in the following manner and dependant on available funding:

(a) basic enrollment payment which will be provided to anyone enrolled in the program;

(b) basic impact payment which will be provided to all cooperators and computed at an amount per hunter day;

(c) length of season impact payment which will be available in addition to other impact payments to cooperators who place no restrictions on commission-established fall hunting seasons for any species legally available in huntable numbers on their property. This rate will be set at one-third of the base impact payment;

(d) species/gender impact payment which will be available in addition to other impact payments, to cooperators who place no restrictions on the species and gender available in huntable numbers on their property. This rate will be set at one-third of the base impact payment;

(e) cooperators who provide access corridors to isolated state or federal lands, with no enrollment of deeded land permitting public hunting access, will be eligible for compensation at 50% of the base impact payment and, if no restrictions are placed on the length of seasons, 50% of the length of season impact payment, based on the number of hunters for which access is provided;

(f) in situations involving unique hunting opportunities or special management circumstances, compensation may be negotiated on a case-by-case basis at a rate not to exceed limits set in 87-1-267(7) , MCA. Compensation amounts in these situations will require written approval of the regional supervisor; and

(g) for those cooperators who elect to receive monetary compensation under this rule, a method of measuring hunter use on the property must be used to document hunter days. This may include, but is not limited to permission slips, daily use rosters or other methods which will accurately reflect the hunter use of a cooperator's property. For those areas with unrestricted access where rosters or permission slips may not be practical, standard department hunter use accounting methods will be used to calculate hunter days.

(3) Additional forms of compensation may also include:

(a) livestock loss insurance payable at full market value of any loss;

(b) the supplying of wildlife damage materials and supplies; and

(c) participation in other department cooperative programs.