§ 673c. — Conservation of elk in Wyoming.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC673c]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 6--GAME AND BIRD PRESERVES; PROTECTION
Sec. 673c. Conservation of elk in Wyoming
(a) Creation of program; licensed hunters deputized as rangers
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission and the National Park Service
shall devise, from technical information and other pertinent data
assembled or produced by necessary field studies or investigations
conducted jointly by the technical and administrative personnel of the
agencies involved, and recommend to the Secretary of the Interior and
the Governor of Wyoming for their joint approval, a program to insure
the permanent conservation of the elk within the Grand Teton National
Park established by this Act. Such program shall include the controlled
reduction of elk in such park, by hunters licensed by the State of
Wyoming and deputized as rangers by the Secretary of the Interior, when
it is found necessary for the purpose of proper management and
protection of the elk.
(b) Recommendations by Wyoming Game and Fish Commission, and National
Park Service; controlled reduction; deputation of hunters;
removal of carcasses
At least once a year between February 1 and April 1, the Wyoming
Game and Fish Commission and the National Park Service shall submit to
the Secretary of the Interior and to the Governor of Wyoming, for their
joint approval, their joint recommendations for the management,
protection, and control of the elk for that year. The yearly plan
recommended by the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission and the National
Park Service shall become effective when approved by the Secretary of
the Interior and the Governor of Wyoming, and thereupon the Wyoming Game
and Fish Commission and the Secretary of the Interior shall issue
separately, but simultaneously such appropriate orders and regulations
as are necessary to carry out those portions of the approved plan that
fall within their respective jurisdictions. Such orders and regulations,
to be issued by the Secretary of the Interior and the Wyoming Game and
Fish Commission, shall include provision for controlled and managed
reduction by qualified and experienced hunters licensed by the State of
Wyoming and deputized as rangers by the Secretary of the Interior, if
and when a reduction in the number of elk by this method within the
Grand Teton National Park established by this Act is required as a part
of the approved plan for the year, provided that one elk only may be
killed by each such licensed and deputized ranger. Such orders and
regulations of the Secretary of the Interior for controlled reduction
shall apply only to the lands within the Park which lie east of the
Snake River and those lands west of Jackson Lake and the Snake River
which lie north of the present north boundaries of Grand Teton National
Park, but shall not be applicable to lands within the Jackson Hole
Wildlife Park. After the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission and the
National Park Service shall have recommended to the Secretary of the
Interior and the Governor of Wyoming in any specified year a plan, which
has received the joint approval of the Secretary of the Interior and the
Governor of Wyoming, calling for the controlled and managed reduction by
the method prescribed herein of the number of elk within the Grand Teton
National Park established by this Act, and after the Wyoming Game and
Fish Commission shall have transmitted to the Secretary of the Interior
a list of persons who have elk hunting licenses issued by the State of
Wyoming and who are qualified and experienced hunters, on or before July
1 of that year the Secretary of the Interior, without charge, shall
cause to be issued orders deputizing the persons whose names appear on
such list, in the number specified by the plan, as rangers for the
purpose of entering the park and assisting in the controlled reduction
plan. Each such qualified hunter, deputized as a ranger, participating
in the controlled reduction plan shall be permitted to remove from the
park the carcass of the elk he has killed as a part of the plan.
(Sept. 14, 1950, ch. 950, Sec. 6, 64 Stat. 851.)
References in Text
This Act, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), is act Sept. 14,
1950, which is classified to sections 406d-1 to 406d-5, 531a, 451a,
482m, 673b, 673c of this title. For complete classification of this Act
to the Code, see Tables.
Repeal of Inconsistent Laws
Repeal of laws inconsistent with act Sept. 14, 1950, see note set
out under section 406d-1 of this title.
