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SJM103.........................................by RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT
SIKES ACT - Stating findings of the Legislature and urging Congress to
grant the appropriation request of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife - Idaho,
as authorized under the Sikes Act, for the South Central Idaho Isolated
Wildlife Tract Cooperative Habitat Program.
02/12 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/13 Rpt prt - to Res/Env
02/26 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 10th Ord
02/27 10th Ord - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsor - Cameron
Title apvd - to House
02/28 House intro - 1st rdg - to Res/Con
03/08 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/09 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/12 3rd rdg - ADOPTED - 64-0-6
AYES -- Anderson, Andrus, Barrett, Bayer, Bedke, Bell, Bilbao, Block,
Bock, Boe, Bolz, Brackett, Bradford, Chadderdon, Chavez, Chew,
Collins, Crane, Durst, Edmunson, Eskridge, Hagedorn, Hart, Harwood,
Henbest, Henderson, Jaquet, Killen, King, Kren, Labrador, Lake,
LeFavour, Loertscher, Luker, Marriott, Mathews, McGeachin, Mortimer,
Moyle, Nielsen, Pasley-Stuart, Patrick, Pence, Ringo, Roberts,
Ruchti, Rusche, Sayler, Schaefer, Shepherd(2), Shepherd(8), Shirley,
Shively, Smith(30), Smith(24), Snodgrass, Thayn, Trail, Vander Woude,
Wills, Wood(27), Wood(35), Mr. Speaker
NAYS -- None
Absent and excused -- Black, Clark, Nonini, Raybould, Ring, Stevenson
Floor Sponsor - Hagedorn
Title apvd - to Senate
03/13 To enrol
03/14 Rpt enrol - Pres signed - Sp signed
03/15 To Secretary of State
]]]] LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ]]]]
Fifty-ninth Legislature First Regular Session - 2007
IN THE SENATE
SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 103
BY RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE
1 A JOINT MEMORIAL
2 TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS
3 ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF
4 IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
5 We, your Memorialists, the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
6 State of Idaho assembled in the First Regular Session of the Fifty-ninth Idaho
7 Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:
8 WHEREAS, the federal Sikes Act, as originally enacted in 1960, authorized
9 the Secretary of Defense to develop cooperative plans for conservation and
10 rehabilitation programs on military reservations and to establish outdoor rec-
11 reation facilities; and
12 WHEREAS, over the course of time a number of amendments to the Act have
13 been made by Congress and, in 1974, the Act was amended to include funding of
14 wildlife work in cooperation with state wildlife agencies on land administered
15 by the Bureau of Land Management; and
16 WHEREAS, cooperative agreements together with a comprehensive plan between
17 state wildlife agencies and the Bureau of Land Management are basic to full
18 implementation of the amended Sikes Act; and
19 WHEREAS, starting in 1975, the Region IV Supervisor of the Idaho Depart-
20 ment of Fish and Game and the Burley, Jarbidge, and Shoshone District Managers
21 of the Bureau of Land Management began to cooperatively develop comprehensive
22 wildlife habitat management plans on 240 isolated tracts of public land
23 located on the Snake River Plain; and
24 WHEREAS, the current Sikes Act Cooperative Wildlife Habitat - Farming
25 Agreement was conceived in 1977 with the development of the Burley District
26 Cassia-Twin Falls Isolated Tracts Wildlife Habitat Management Plan; and
27 WHEREAS, large portions of sagebrush within the region have been converted
28 to agricultural lands and otherwise developed since 1977 and scattered tracts
29 of public land remain to provide essential habitat for a broad array of wild-
30 life species; and
31 WHEREAS, these critical isolated tracts need specific enhancements and
32 protection to ensure their ability to provide needed wildlife habitat into the
33 foreseeable future; and
34 WHEREAS, Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife - Idaho, with cooperation from
35 the Idaho Department of Fish and Game and the Bureau of Land Management, are
36 requesting that Congress appropriate up to one million dollars for a new South
37 Central Idaho Isolated Wildlife Tract Cooperative Habitat Program; and
38 WHEREAS, the primary objective of that plan is to protect and enhance
39 upland game bird habitat on 284 separate tracts of public lands comprising
40 33,533 acres on the Snake River Plain with appropriate spinoffs accruing to
41 other game and nongame species; and
42 WHEREAS, federal appropriations will provide the money needed to improve
43 and enhance the wildlife value on the isolated wildlife tracts in South Cen-
44 tral Idaho for many years.
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1 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Session
2 of the Fifty-ninth Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the House of Representa-
3 tives concurring therein, that it supports Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife -
4 Idaho's federal appropriation request for up to one million dollars as autho-
5 rized under the Sikes Act for the South Central Idaho Isolated Wildlife Tract
6 Cooperative Habitat Program and urges Congress to grant the appropriation
7 request.
8 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate be, and she is
9 hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Memorial to the Pres-
10 ident of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Con-
11 gress, and the congressional delegation representing the State of Idaho in the
12 Congress of the United States.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 16979
The resolution is to support a federal appropriation application for up
to One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) as authorized under the Sikes Act for
the South Central Idaho Isolated Wildlife Tract Cooperative Habitat Program
and urges Congress to grant the request. The appropriated dollars will
primarily protect and enhance upland game-bird habitat on 284 separate tracts
of public lands comprising 33,533 acres on the Snake River Plain with
appropriate spin-offs accruing to other game and non-game species. After the
appropriation, a cooperative agreement together with a comprehensive plan
between the Idaho Department of Fish and Game and the Bureau of Land
Management will enable program implementation.
FISCAL IMPACT
Contact
Name: Senator Dean Cameron 334-4735
Phone: Senator Clint Stennett 332-1351
Rep. Mike Moyle 332-1120
Rep. Marv Hagadorn 332-1000
Name: Nathan T. Helm
Agency Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife
Phone (208) 888 0988
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE SJM 103