16 U.S.C. § 669a : US Code - Section 669A: Definitions

Search 16 U.S.C. § 669a : US Code - Section 669A: Definitions

As used in this chapter -
(1) the term "conservation" means the use of methods and
procedures necessary or desirable to sustain healthy populations
of wildlife, including all activities associated with scientific
resources management such as research, census, monitoring of
populations, acquisition, improvement and management of habitat,
live trapping and transplantation, wildlife damage management,
and periodic or total protection of a species or population, as
well as the taking of individuals within wildlife stock or
population if permitted by applicable State and Federal law;
(2) the term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior;
(3) the term "State fish and game department" or "State fish
and wildlife department" means any department or division of
department of another name, or commission, or official or
officials, of a State empowered under its laws to exercise the
functions ordinarily exercised by a State fish and game
department or State fish and wildlife department.
(4) the term "wildlife" means any species of wild, free-ranging
fauna including fish, and also fauna in captive breeding programs
the object of which is to reintroduce individuals of a depleted
indigenous species into previously occupied range;
(5) the term "wildlife-associated recreation" means projects
intended to meet the demand for outdoor activities associated
with wildlife including, but not limited to, hunting and fishing,
wildlife observation and photography, such projects as
construction or restoration of wildlife viewing areas,
observation towers, blinds, platforms, land and water trails,
water access, field trialing, trail heads, and access for such
projects;
(6) the term "wildlife conservation and restoration program"
means a program developed by a State fish and wildlife department
and approved by the Secretary under section 669c(d) (!1) of this
title, the projects that constitute such a program, which may be
implemented in whole or part through grants and contracts by a
State to other State, Federal, or local agencies (including those
that gather, evaluate, and disseminate information on wildlife
and their habitats), wildlife conservation organizations, and
outdoor recreation and conservation education entities from funds
apportioned under this chapter,(!1) and maintenance of such
projects;
(7) the term "wildlife conservation education" means projects,
including public outreach, intended to foster responsible natural
resource stewardship; and
(8) the term "wildlife-restoration project" includes the
wildlife conservation and restoration program and means the
selection, restoration, rehabilitation, and improvement of areas
of land or water adaptable as feeding, resting, or breeding
places for wildlife, including acquisition of such areas or
estates or interests therein as are suitable or capable of being
made suitable therefor, and the construction thereon or therein
of such works as may be necessary to make them available for such
purposes and also including such research into problems of
wildlife management as may be necessary to efficient
administration affecting wildlife resources, and such preliminary
or incidental costs and expenses as may be incurred in and about
such projects.