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2019 New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title XVIII - Fish and Game
Chapter 212-B - Nongame Species Management Act
Section 212-B:2 - Findings and Declarations.
Universal Citation: NH Rev Stat § 212-B:2 (2019)
212-B:2 Findings and Declarations. –
The legislature finds and declares that:
I. New Hampshire's wildlife resources include more than 300 vertebrate species which normally breed in the state, and an additional 120 bird species which occur as transients, migrants, or wintering populations. Of these 420 species, about 60 are considered furbearers, game birds or mammals, or sport fish.
II. Native wildlife constitutes an invaluable natural resource with ecological, scientific, educational, historical, recreational, economic, and aesthetic values to the citizens of New Hampshire.
III. It shall be the policy of the state to maintain and manage this resource for future generations.
The legislature finds and declares that:
I. New Hampshire's wildlife resources include more than 300 vertebrate species which normally breed in the state, and an additional 120 bird species which occur as transients, migrants, or wintering populations. Of these 420 species, about 60 are considered furbearers, game birds or mammals, or sport fish.
II. Native wildlife constitutes an invaluable natural resource with ecological, scientific, educational, historical, recreational, economic, and aesthetic values to the citizens of New Hampshire.
III. It shall be the policy of the state to maintain and manage this resource for future generations.
Source. 1988, 244:1, eff. June 29, 1988.
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