Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§37 Provision of Feed and Range Facilities for Game Animals

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

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior can provide the winter range and feeding areas needed to protect and grow elk, antelope, and other game animals in Yellowstone National Park and nearby lands in township 8 south, ranges 7 and 8 east, and township 9 south, ranges 7, 8, and 9 east, Montana principal meridian. This is allowed subject to limits set later in the law. He may take private donations and put them into a special U.S. Treasury fund to buy land for this purpose. He may also buy land or accept gifts or inheritances of land that are privately or state owned in those townships if he thinks it is needed to carry out sections 37 to 40.

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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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 37

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102