Range and Feral Animal Management (50 CFR 30)

50 CFR Part 30 (up to date as of 11/24/2025)
Range and Feral Animal Management

50 CFR Part 30 (Nov. 24, 2025)

This content is from the eCFR and is authoritative but unofficial.

Title 50 —Wildlife and Fisheries
Chapter I —United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Subchapter C —The National Wildlife Refuge System
Part 30 Range and Feral Animal Management
Subpart A Range Animals
§ 30.1 Surplus range animals.
§ 30.2 Disposition of surplus range animals.
Subpart B Feral Animals
§ 30.11 Control of feral animals.
§ 30.12 Disposition of feral animals.

PART 30—RANGE AND FERAL ANIMAL MANAGEMENT
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 16 U.S.C. 668dd, as amended; 16 U.S.C. 715i, as amended; 41 CFR 101-44.

Subpart A—Range Animals
§ 30.1 Surplus range animals.
Range animals on fenced wildlife refuge areas, including buffalo and longhorn cattle, determined to be surplus to
the needs of the conservation program may be planned and scheduled for disposal.
[38 FR 16356, June 22, 1973]

§ 30.2 Disposition of surplus range animals.
Disposition shall be made only during regularly scheduled disposal program periods, except in the event of exigent
circumstances affecting the animals, their range, or the recipient. The Refuge Manager is responsible for
determining the existence of “exigent circumstances.” Surplus range animals may be disposed of, subject to State
and Federal health laws and regulations, by donation for specific purposes to public agencies, public institutions,
other governments or charitable institutions, or sold on the open market.
[62 FR 19937, Apr. 24, 1997]

Subpart B—Feral Animals

50 CFR 30.2 (enhanced display)

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50 CFR Part 30 (up to date as of 11/24/2025)
Range and Feral Animal Management

50 CFR 30.11

§ 30.11 Control of feral animals.
(a) Feral animals, including horses, burros, cattle, swine, sheep, goats, reindeer, dogs, and cats, without
ownership that have reverted to the wild from a domestic state may be taken by authorized Federal or
State personnel or by private persons operating under permit in accordance with applicable provisions of
Federal or State law or regulation.
(b) [Reserved]
[31 FR 16027, Dec. 15, 1966]

§ 30.12 Disposition of feral animals.
Feral animals taken on wildlife refuge areas may be disposed of by sale on the open market, gift or loan to public or
private institutions for specific purposes, and as otherwise provided in section 401 of the act of June 15, 1935 (49
Stat. 383, 16 U.S.C. 715s).
[38 FR 16356, June 22, 1973]

50 CFR 30.12 (enhanced display)

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