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Executive Order: Facilitation of Hunting Heritage and Wildlife Conservation
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary August 17, 2007

Executive Order: Facilitation of Hunting Heritage and Wildlife Conservation

˙˙White House News


By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1.Purpose. The purpose of this order is to direct Federal agencies
that have programs and activities that have a measurable effect on public
land management, outdoor recreation, and wildlife management, including the
Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture, to facilitate
the expansion and enhancement of hunting opportunities and the management
of game species and their habitat.

Sec. 2.Federal Activities. Federal agencies shall, consistent with agency
missions:

(a) Evaluate the effect of agency actions on trends in hunting
participation and, where appropriate to address declining trends, implement
actions that expand and enhance hunting opportunities for the public;

(b) Consider the economic and recreational values of hunting in agency
actions, as appropriate;

(c) Manage wildlife and wildlife habitats on public lands in a manner that
expands and enhances hunting opportunities, including through the use of
hunting in wildlife management planning;

(d) Work collaboratively with State governments to manage and conserve game
species and their habitats in a manner that respects private property
rights and State management authority over wildlife resources;

(e) Establish short and long term goals, in cooperation with State and
tribal governments, and consistent with agency missions, to foster healthy
and productive populations of game species and appropriate opportunities
for the public to hunt those species;

(f) Ensure that agency plans and actions consider programs and
recommendations of comprehensive planning efforts such as State Wildlife
Action Plans, the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, and other
range-wide management plans for big game and upland game birds;

(g) Seek the advice of State and tribal fish and wildlife agencies, and, as
appropriate, consult with the Sporting Conservation Council and other
organizations, with respect to the foregoing Federal activities.

Sec. 3. North American Wildlife Policy Conference. The Chairman of the
Council on Environmental Quality (Chairman) shall, in coordination with the
appropriate Federal agencies and in consultation with the Sporting
Conservation Council and in cooperation with State and tribal fish and
wildlife agencies and the public, convene not later than 1 year after the
date of this order, and periodically thereafter at such times as the
Chairman deems appropriate, a White House Conference on North American
Wildlife Policy (Conference) to facilitate the exchange of information and
advice relating to the means for achieving the goals of this order.

Sec. 4.Recreational Hunting and Wildlife Resource Conservation Plan. The
Chairman shall prepare, consistent with applicable law and subject to the
availability of appropriations, in coordination with the appropriate
Federal agencies and in consultation with the Sporting Conservation
Council, and in cooperation with State and tribal fish and wildlife
agencies, not later than 1 year following the conclusion of the Conference,
a comprehensive Recreational Hunting and Wildlife Conservation Plan that
incorporates existing and ongoing activities and sets forth a 10 year
agenda for fulfilling the actions identified in section 2 of this order.

Sec. 5. Judicial Review. This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right, benefit, trust responsibility, or privilege, substantive
or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the
United States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, or entities,
its officers or employees, or any other person.

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

August 16, 2007.

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