---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 673d"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "673d"
heading: "Restoration and conservation of elk in California"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/673d"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection"
---

# §673d. Restoration and conservation of elk in California


It is the sense of Congress that the restoration and conservation of a Tule elk population in California of at least two thousand, except that the number of Tule elk in the Owens River Watershed [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall at no time exceed four hundred and ninety or such greater number which is determined by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of California to be the maximum holding capacity of such [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), is an appropriate national goal.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–389, § 1, Aug. 14, 1976, 90 Stat. 1189.)