Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§37 Provision of feed and range facilities for game animals

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER V— - YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK › § 37

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allow the Secretary of the Interior to get land and money to provide winter range and feeding to protect elk, antelope, and other game animals of Yellowstone National Park and adjacent lands. The area covered is township 8 south, ranges 7 and 8 east, and township 9 south, ranges 7, 8, and 9 east, Montana principal meridian. Under limits set elsewhere in the law, the Secretary may accept private donations into a special Treasury fund to buy land, and may buy land or accept gifts or bequests of land from private owners or the State.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §37

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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.

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Citations & Metadata

Citation

16 U.S.C. § 37

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73