---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 37"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "37"
heading: "Provision of feed and range facilities for game animals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/37"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter V — Yellowstone National Park"
---

# §37. Provision of feed and range facilities for game animals


As a means of providing within township 8 south, ranges 7 and 8 east, and township 9 south, ranges 7, 8, and 9 east, Montana principal meridian, the winter range and winter feed facilities indispensable for the adequate and proper protection, preservation, and propagation of the elk, antelope, and other game animals of the Yellowstone National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) and adjacent lands, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, in his discretion, and subject to the limitation hereinafter prescribed may, and is, authorized to perform the following acts:

- (a) Accept and deposit in a special fund in the Treasury, and expend for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands as herein authorized, private funds donated for such purpose.
- (b) [Acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) by purchase, or by acceptance of donations or bequests, such lands in private or [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) ownership within the townships above described as he may deem necessary to carry out the purpose of sections 37 to [40](/usc/16/40.md) of this title.

## Source credit

(May 26, 1926, ch. 399, § 1, 44 Stat. 655.)