The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to cooperate with the States, through their respective State fish and game departments, in wildlife- restoration projects as hereinafter in this chapter set forth; but no money apportioned under this chapter to any State shall be expended therein until its legislature, or other State agency authorized by the State constitution to make laws governing the conservation of wildlife, shall have assented to the provision of this chapter and shall have passed laws for the conservation of wildlife which shall include a prohibition against the diversion of license fees paid by hunters for any other purpose than the administration of said State fish and game department, except that, until the final adjournment of the first regular session of the legislature held after September 2, 1937, the assent of the Governor of the State shall be sufficient. The Secretary of the Interior and the State fish and game department of each State accepting the benefits of this chapter, shall agree upon the wildlife-restoration projects to be aided in such State under the terms of this chapter and all projects shall conform to the standards fixed by the Secretary of the Interior.
LB if you read real carefully you will see that without a Game/fish agency the odds of your state after you would dissolve your game dept would find a tough time getting any of those millions from the Dept of the interior! Your money would then in all likely hood go to another state which would benefit greatly to the wild resources of their state pulling away tourism from your state or others that may try what you describe!
LB with No game dpt and much in the way of lost funding how would you pay for any resource needs? Where exactly would that money come from? I'm betting the tax payers would still be paying in one form or another just at a much higher rate than now! You would have less hunter dollars, zero pitt/robertson in all likely hood, and a tourism base on the decline, not to mention way less enforcement of game/fish laws higher poaching rates. Yeah great plan LB :roll: , but ain't going to happen.
LB does the constitution set drinking laws? Or how about the legal amount of alcohol before legally drunk? Yet the feds mandate or force states to conform to their guidelines correct? How and why? If any states wants the fed dollars you must play within the system or loose those dollars.