Presidential Documents

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Federal Register 

Vol. 72, No. 160 

Monday, August 20, 2007 

Title 3— 

The President 

Executive Order 13443 of August 16, 2007 

Facilitation of Hunting Heritage and Wildlife Conservation 

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 


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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. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

August 16, 2007. 

[FR Doc. 07–4115 

Filed 8–17–07; 10:46 am] 

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