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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 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.
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