[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 33 (Monday, August 20, 2007)]
[Pages 1078-1079]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13443--Facilitation of Hunting Heritage and Wildlife 
Conservation

August 16, 2007

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as 
follows:
    Section 1. Purpose. The purpose of this order is to direct Federal 
agencies that have programs and activities that have a measurable effect 
on public land management, outdoor recreation, and wildlife management, 
including the Department of the Interior and the Department of 
Agriculture, to facilitate the expansion and enhancement of hunting 
opportunities and the management of game species and their habitat.
    Sec. 2. Federal Activities. Federal agencies shall, consistent with 
agency missions:
    (a) Evaluate the effect of agency actions on trends in hunting 
participation and, where appropriate to address declining trends, 
implement actions that expand and enhance hunting opportunities for the 
public;
    (b) Consider the economic and recreational values of hunting in 
agency actions, as appropriate;
    (c) Manage wildlife and wildlife habitats on public lands in a 
manner that expands and enhances hunting opportunities, including 
through the use of hunting in wildlife management planning;
    (d) Work collaboratively with State governments to manage and 
conserve game species and their habitats in a manner that respects 
private property rights and State management authority over wildlife 
resources;
    (e) Establish short and long term goals, in cooperation with State 
and tribal governments, and consistent with agency missions, to foster 
healthy and productive populations of game species and appropriate 
opportunities for the public to hunt those species;
    (f) Ensure that agency plans and actions consider programs and 
recommendations of comprehensive planning efforts such as State Wildlife 
Action Plans, the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, and other 
range-wide management plans for big game and upland game birds;
    (g) Seek the advice of State and tribal fish and wildlife agencies, 
and, as appropriate, consult with the Sporting Conservation Council and 
other organizations, with respect to the foregoing Federal activities.
    Sec. 3. North American Wildlife Policy Conference. The Chairman of 
the Council on Environmental Quality (Chairman) shall, in coordination 
with the appropriate Federal agencies and in consultation with the 
Sporting Conservation Council and in cooperation with State and tribal 
fish and wildlife agencies and the public, convene not later than

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1 year after the date of this order, and periodically thereafter at such 
times as the Chairman deems appropriate, a White House Conference on 
North American Wildlife Policy (Conference) to facilitate the exchange 
of information and advice relating to the means for achieving the goals 
of this order.
    Sec. 4. Recreational Hunting and Wildlife Resource Conservation 
Plan. The Chairman shall prepare, consistent with applicable law and 
subject to the availability of appropriations, in coordination with the 
appropriate Federal agencies and in consultation with the Sporting 
Conservation Council, and in cooperation with State and tribal fish and 
wildlife agencies, not later than 1 year following the conclusion of the 
Conference, a comprehensive Recreational Hunting and Wildlife 
Conservation Plan that incorporates existing and ongoing activities and 
sets forth a 10-year agenda for fulfilling the actions identified in 
section 2 of this order.
    Sec. 5. Judicial Review. This order is not intended to, and does 
not, create any right, benefit, trust responsibility, or privilege, 
substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party 
against the United States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, 
or entities, its officers or employees, or any other person.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 August 16, 2007.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:46 a.m., August 17, 
2007]

Note: This Executive order released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on August 17, and it was published in the Federal Register on August 20.