87-5-701. Purpose. The legislature finds that in order to protect the native wildlife and plant species of Montana and to protect the agricultural production of Montana, it is necessary to provide for the control of the importation for introduction and the transplantation or introduction of wildlife in the state. Serious threats, known and unknown, to the well-being of native wildlife and plant species and to agricultural production, resulting from the introduction of wildlife into natural habitats, necessitate the prohibition of the importation for introduction and the transplantation or introduction of wildlife into natural habitats unless it can be shown that no harm will result from such transplantation or introduction. Any importation for introduction or the transplantation or introduction permitted must be conducted in a manner to assure that the introduced or transplanted population can be controlled if harm arises from unforeseen effects.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 624, L. 1985.