Wildlife - Game

Conservation of wildlife and game and the imposition of hunting laws is considered a "police" or "municipal" power of the State. (Please see Understanding American Property Rights Part III.) On the question of whether a tribal treaty provision for hunting rights in "hunting districts" in disregard of State hunting regulations survived the admission of Wyoming, Justice White for the Court in Ward v. Race Horse, 163 U.S. 504 (1896)stated  

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