3.1 Introduction
Selected state and federal laws that protect wildlife
T ABLE 3.1
Federal Resource Laws 1
NC General Statutes 2
• Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act • Endangered Species Act • Federal Aid in Fish Restoration Act • Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act (Dingell– Johnson Act, Wallop–Breaux Act) • Federal Aid in Wildlife Conservation Act (Pittman–Robertson Act) • Fish & Wildlife Act • Fish & Wildlife Conservation Act (Nongame Act) • Fisheries Conservation & Management Act • Lacey Act • Land & Water Conservation Act • Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
Chapter 19A: Protection of Animals (includes protection of black bears)
Chapter 77: Rivers, Creeks, and Coastal Waters (defnes river basins, covers obstructions in streams, various lake management commissions, and clean water regulation) Chapter 104: US Lands (covers inland waterways, forest reserves, migra- tory bird sanctuaries, wildlife refuges, National Park system lands) Chapter 106: Agriculture (covers pest control, forestry services and develop- ment, prescribed burning) Chapter 113: Conservation and Development (covers state forests and park topics, fre control, game laws, trapping, conservation agencies, coastal fsheries, regulation of wildlife and fsher- ies, endangered and threatened species, species of special concern) Chapter 146: State Lands (covers land acquisition topics including wetland mitigation, public parks and forests, public waters access)
• Marine Mammal Protection Act • Migratory Bird Conservation Act • Migratory Bird Treaty Act
• Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act • Protection of Migratory Game & Insectivorous Birds Migratory Bird Treaty
• Whaling Convention Act • Wild Bird Conservation Act
1. See http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/Resourcelaws.html for enacted and revision dates 2. See http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/Statutes/StatutesTOC.pl for enacted and revision dates
animal list (see GS113 and GS 143). Tese statutes also provide defnitions covering fsh, including freshwater, marine, and estuarine species, and wildlife resources, including game and migratory species. Tese include the following (as defned in NCGS 113, Article 12, §113-129):
“ Wildlife [is] all wild animals, wild birds, all fsh found in inland fshing waters, and inland game fsh.”
“ Wild Animal means any native or once-native nongame amphibian, bird, crustacean, fsh, mammal, mollusk, or reptile not otherwise legally classifed by statute or regu- lation such as game and fur bearing animals, except those inhabiting and depending upon coastal fshing waters, marine and estuarine resources, marine mammals found in coastal fshing waters, sea turtles found in coastal fshing waters, and those declared
29
2015 NC Wildlife Action Plan
Made with FlippingBook - professional solution for displaying marketing and sales documents online