(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the commission may, by rule or proclamation embodying its findings in respect to a need for activity restrictions by time and place and in accordance with season setting provisions identified in section 36-104(b), Idaho Code, provide seasonal restrictions on the possession and transportation of shed antlers or horns from deer, elk, moose, and pronghorn and antlers or horns from deer, elk, moose, bighorn sheep, and pronghorn that have died from natural causes. The commission may restrict the acts of searching for, locating, or gathering antlers or horns under this section. Such seasonal restrictions shall be intended to protect wintering big game.