Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

(a) Wildlife Policy.
All wildlife, including all wild animals, wild birds, and fish, within the
state of Idaho, is hereby declared to be the property of the state of Idaho.
It shall be preserved, protected, perpetuated, and managed. It shall be only
captured or taken at such times or places, under such conditions, or by such
means, or in such manner, as will preserve, protect, and perpetuate such
wildlife, and provide for the citizens of this state and, as by law permitted
to others, continued supplies of such wildlife for hunting, fishing and
trapping.
(b) Commission to Administer Policy. Because conditions are changing and
in changing affect the preservation, protection, and perpetuation of Idaho
wildlife, the methods and means of administering and carrying out the state's
policy must be flexible and dependent on the ascertainment of facts which from
time to time exist and fix the needs for regulation and control of fishing,
hunting, trapping, and other activity relating to wildlife, and because it is
inconvenient and impractical for the legislature of the state of Idaho to
administer such policy, it shall be the authority, power and duty of the fish
and game commission to administer and carry out the policy of the state in
accordance with the provisions of the Idaho fish and game code. The commission
is not authorized to change such policy but only to administer it.

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