60^th WYOMING LEGISLATURE

INTERIM COMMITTEE STUDIES

2009 INTERIM

JOINT TRAVEL, RECREATION, WILDLIFE AND CULTURAL RESOURCES INTERIM COMMITTEE

Standard Budget:     $30,000.00

Priority #: 1     Game and Fish department

The committee wishes to address general issues brought by the game and fish department with emphasis on the following topics:

     (a)  Creation of a resident preference point program for resident elk, deer and antelope licenses.

     (b)  Management of invasive aquatic species.

     (c)  Update of free and reduced price license recoupment program, W.S. 23-1-504.

     (d)  Receipt of various reports required under law and general updates on department programs including wolf management, sage grouse and the wildlife heritage foundation.

Priority #: 2     State Parks and Cultural Resources

The committee wishes to address general issues brought by the department of state parks and cultural resources with emphasis on the following topics:

     (a)  Promotion of cultural heritage tourism.

     (b)  Statutory framework for concessionaire contracts.

     (c)  General land management issues including review of the department's efforts to identify and properly record its holdings, boundary descriptions in statutes and flexibility in land management and the site criteria process.

Priority #: 3     Wyoming Tourism Board

The committee will receive a report from the Wyoming Tourism Board on development of their master plan.  The committee would like the authority to sponsor legislation that may prove necessary after the development of that plan.