§ 37. — Provision of feed and range facilities for game animals.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC37]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER V--YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 37. Provision of feed and range facilities for game animals
As a means of providing within township 8 south, ranges 7 and 8
east, and township 9 south, ranges 7, 8, and 9 east, Montana principal
meridian, the winter range and winter feed facilities indispensable for
the adequate and proper protection, preservation, and propagation of the
elk, antelope, and other game animals of the Yellowstone National Park
and adjacent lands, the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion,
and subject to the limitation hereinafter prescribed may, and is,
authorized to perform the following acts:
(a) Accept and deposit in a special fund in the Treasury, and expend
for the acquisition of lands as herein authorized, private funds donated
for such purpose.
(b) Acquire by purchase, or by acceptance of donations or bequests,
such lands in private or State ownership within the townships above
described as he may deem necessary to carry out the purpose of sections
37 to 40 of this title.
(May 26, 1926, ch. 399, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 655.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 38, 39, 40 of this title.