JOINT TRAVEL, RECREATION, WILDLIFE &

CULTURAL RESOURCES INTERIM COMMITTEE

Tentative Agenda

Star Valley High School

Band Room

Afton, Wyoming

June 9, 2003

8:30 a.m.         CALL TO ORDER

                        Roll call

8:35 a.m.         Delisting of endangered species

                        Bill Wichers, Deputy Director Game and Fish Department

Break

10:45 a.m.       Residency requirements for hunting and fishing

Steve DeCecco, Regional Wildlife Supervisor, G&F Department

Noon               Lunch

1:15 p.m.         Preference points

Bill Wichers, Deputy Director, G&F Department – overview of current preference point system and proposal for expansion to nonresident antelope, deer and elk

2:15 p.m.         Critical habitat

                        Committee discussion/requests from G&F Department

3:00 p.m.         Break

3:15 p.m.         Wildlife consumption/reimbursement issues

Gary Brown, Regional Wildlife Supervisor, G&F Department

                        Appointment of members to Joint Subcommittee

3:45 p.m.         License selling agent commissions

                        Bill Wichers, Deputy Director G&F Department

ADJOURN

Public comment will be taken on each issue after the scheduled presentations.  Please note that for the wildlife consumption issue, the Committee has been charged with establishing a joint subcommittee with the Agriculture Committee.  At this meeting, the Committee intends to hear only a brief background, allowing the subcommittee to take extensive testimony on the issue at a later date.

June 10, 2003

8:30 a.m.         Master plan for state parks

Phil Noble, Director State Parks and Cultural Resources

10:00 a.m.       Vore Buffalo Jump Site

                        Vore Buffalo Jump Foundation Board members

11:00 a.m.       Kemmerer equestrian center proposal

11:30 a.m.       Afton intermittent springs

Noon               Lunch

1:00 p.m.         State's management plan for archives and historic collections

2:00 p.m.         Reciprocity for ATV and snowmobile registration

Department of state parks and cultural resources

Committee directives

                        Setting next meeting date

ADJOURN

Public comment will be taken on each issue after the scheduled presentations