Tennessee - R3 Mandates

(3) The agency shall exercise its authority to manage lands in a manner to support, promote and enhance recreational hunting and fishing opportunities to the extent authorized by law.

Tenn. Code Ann. § 70-5-101 (West)

The general assembly recognizes and reaffirms the importance to the citizens of Tennessee of management, protection, propagation, and conservation of wildlife, including the importance of protecting and preserving for future generations the heritage of hunting and fishing in the state. Further, the general assembly recognizes the importance of providing the opportunity for citizens to invest in the future of its wildlife resources. Therefore, in order to aid in future funding for the wildlife resources agency to continue establishing and carrying out fish and wildlife programs and to assure protection and preservation for future generations of the heritage of hunting and fishing in the state, there is hereby created a fund known as the “wildlife management endowment fund.”

Tenn. Code Ann. § 70-1-501 (West)

The income received and accruing from the investments of the wildlife management endowment fund, subject to limitations prescribed for funds received from the sale of lifetime sportsman licenses to holders under the age of sixteen (16) years, may only be spent in furthering the management, protection, propagation, and conservation of wildlife to assure perpetual protection and preservation for future generations of the heritage of hunting and fishing in the state of Tennessee and the efficient operation of the wildlife resources agency in accomplishing these objectives.

Tenn. Code Ann. § 70-1-506 (West)