Show Wildlife Legislation President Ford has signed important wildlife legislation despite reported veto recommendations from the Interior according to the Wildlife Management THE commonly referred to as the Sikes renews and improves conservation programs on military reservations and provides additional funding authority and directives for federal-state cooperative wildlife projects on national the public and other public The Act allows the Defense and Interior Departments million to enhance fish and wildlife habitat and recreational opportunities on about 30 million acres of military IT PROVIDES million new funding authority to the U.S. Forest Service and million to the Bureau of Land Atomic Energy and National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration for fish and wildlife habitat It directs expenditure of those funds via cooperative agreements with state wildlife The Act permits the sale of special stamps or fee collections for and trapping on federal public lands managed under cooperative That provision could be implemented only if both the state and federal agencies mutually agree to do THE STAMPS or be sold or collected state and improve fish habitat on the areas fr the fees were |