''Geer v. Connecticut'', 161 U.S. 519 (1896), was a

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decision, which dealt with the transportation of wild fowl over state lines. ''Geer'' held that the states owned the wild animals within their borders and could strictly regulate their management and harvest. According to the ''Geer'' Court, "the right to preserve game flows from the undoubted existence in the State of a police power." Although this statement is often quoted by state advocates, it is followed by the qualification that this power reaches only "in so far as its exercise may not be incompatible with, or restrained by, the rights conveyed to the Federal government by the Constitution." The ''Geer'' decision supported the view that the states owned all resident wildlife, but at the time there were no conflicting federal wildlife laws.

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