---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 666b"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "666b"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/666b"
units:
  - "Chapter 5A — Protection and Conservation of Wildlife"
  - "Subchapter I — Game, Fur-Bearing Animals, and Fish"
---

# §666b. Definitions


The terms “[wildlife](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=7)” and “[wildlife](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=7) resources” as used herein include birds, [fishes](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=7), mammals, and all other classes of wild animals and all types of aquatic and land vegetation upon which [wildlife](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=7) is dependent.


## Source credit

(Mar. 10, 1934, ch. 55, § 8, as added Aug. 14, 1946, ch. 965, 60 Stat. 1082.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Herein, referred to in text, means act Mar. 10, 1934, ch. 55, 48 Stat. 401, which is classified generally to sections 661 to 666c–1 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 661(a) of this title, Short Title note set out under section 661 of this title, and Tables.