Establishment of Red Desert Game Range

Number: 1975-20

 

WHEREAS, the Red Desert area of Wyoming is in public ownership and provides forage for privately-owned domestic livestock; and

WHEREAS, the Red Desert offers excellent opportunities to manage public wildlife resources for the public benefit; and

WHEREAS, agencies of the federal and state government have responsibilities to manage public wildlife resources on behalf of the public;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National Wildlife Federation, in annual convention assembled March 14-16, 1975, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hereby urges that the Secretary of the Interior take whatever steps are necessary to establish the Red Desert Game Range on suitable amounts of public lands in Wyoming for the purpose of perpetuating native species of wildlife.