Executive Order 10851—Enlarging the Chattahoochee, Kisatchie, Holly Springs, and Ouachita National Forests

WHEREAS certain lands in the States of Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma have been acquired by the United States under the authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, approved April 8, 1935 (49 Stat. 115), or Title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, approved July 22, 1937 (50 Stat. 525), as amended (7 U.S.C. 1010-1012), for use in connection with the Limestone Valleys, Northwest Louisiana, Claiborne Parish, Yalobusha, and McCurtain County Land Utilization Projects; and

WHEREAS, by reason of the transfer effected by Executive Order No. 79081 of June 9, 1938, as amended by Executive Order No. 8531 of August 31, 1940, such projects are now being administered pursuant to Title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act; and

WHEREAS it appears that such lands are suitable for national-forest purposes and that it would be in the public interest to include them in and reserve them as parts of certain hereinafter-designated national forests; and

WHEREAS it appears desirable to include within the exterior boundaries of such national forests certain State and privately-owned lands which are so intermingled with the lands owned by the United States that segregation thereof is impracticable; and

WHEREAS some of such lands owned by the United States are under lease to Soil Conservation Districts or to individuals, and it is desirable that such leases remain in force and effect until terminated as provided therein:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1103, as amended (16 U.S.C. 471), and the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 34, 36 (16 U.S.C. 473), and upon recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is ordered as follows:

The exterior boundaries of the Chattahoochee National Forest, in Georgia, the Kisatchie National Forest, in Louisiana, the Holly Springs National Forest, in Mississippi, and the Ouachita National Forest, in Oklahoma, are hereby extended to include, respectively, the areas hereinafter described under the names of such national forests; and, subject to the aforementioned leases and other valid existing rights, all lands of the United States within such areas which have been acquired by the United States under authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 or Title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act and which are being administered as parts of the aforementioned land-utilization projects are hereby added to and reserved as parts of the respective national forests:

CHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL FOREST-GEORGIA

Beginning at a point on the Tennessee-Georgia State Line, the county line corner of Catoosa and Whitfield Counties, Georgia; thence south and west with said county line to Tiger Creek Road; thence southeasterly with said road to a point west of the northwest corner of U.S. Tract No. 158; thence due east to said corners; thence south with west boundary of Tract 158; thence east with south boundary of said tract and continuing east to the westerly right-of-way line of the Southern Railroad right-of-way; thence south with said right-of-way to a point due east of the northeast corner of U.S. Tract No. 303; thence west to said corner and with the north boundary thereof, continuing west to the westerly right-of-way line of Waring Road; thence south with said road to the north boundary line of U.S. Tract 156; thence with said tract to its southeast corner near the Pleasant Grove Road; thence in a southeasterly and northeasterly direction with said road to the west and right bank of Coahuila Creek; thence up and with said bank of Coahuila Creek 11/4 miles to a point where an unnamed branch of the Creek enters from the northeast; thence due east to a point on the right and west bank of the Conasauga River; thence up and with the meanders of the Conasauga River and Sugar Creek to the Tennessee State Line; thence west with the Tennessee-Georgia State Line to the place of beginning.

The boundaries of the Chattahoochee National Forest addition described herein are graphically shown on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof.

KISATCHIE NATIONAL FOREST-LOUISIANA

LOUISIANA MERIDIAN

T. 22 N., R. 4 W.,

Secs. 1 to 6, inclusive, secs. 9 to 14, inclusive, and sec. 24.

T.23N.,R.4 W.,

Secs. 20 to 22, inclusive, secs. 27 to 29, inclusive, and secs. 31 to 36, inclusive.

T. 22 N., R. 5 W.,

Secs. 6, 7, and secs. 16 to 20, inclusive.

T. 22 N., R. 6 W.,

Secs. 1 to 3, inclusive, secs. 9 to 17, inclusive, secs. 20 to 24, inclusive, and secs.

27 to 30, inclusive.

T. 23 N., R. 6 W.,

Secs. 34 to 36, inclusive.

T. 20 N., R. 8W.,

Secs. 17 to 19, inclusive, and sec. 30. T. 19 N., R. 9 W.,

Secs. 1 to i5, inclusive, and sec. 11.

T. 20 N., R. 9 W.,

Secs. 1 to 3, inclusive, secs. 9 to 18, inclusive, secs. 20 to 29, inclusive, and secs. 32 to 35, inclusive.

T. 21 N., R. 9 W.,

Secs. 34 to 36, inclusive.

HOLLY SPRINGS NATIONAL FORESTT-MISSISSIPPI

CHOCTAW MERIDIAN

T. 24 N., R. 4 E.,

Secs. 1 to 3, inclusive, secs. 10 to 15, inclusive, secs. 23 to 26, inclusive, and secs. 35 and 36.

T. 25 N., R. 4 E.,

Secs. 10 to 15, inclusive, secs. 21 to 28, inclusive, and secs. 34 to 36, inclusive.

T. 23 N., R. 5 E.,

Secs. 1 to 3, inclusive.

T. 24 N., R. 5 E.,

Secs. 1 to 27, inclusive, secs. 29 to 32, inclusive, and secs. 34 to 36, inclusive.

T. 25 N., R. 5 E.,

Secs. 3 to 9, inclusive, secs. 16 to 21, inclusive, and secs. 28 to 35, inclusive.

CHICKASAW MERIDIAN

T. 12 S., R. 6 W., Sec. 2.

OUACHITA NATIONAL FOREST--OKLAHOMA

INDIAN MERIDIAN

T. 8 S., R. 24 E.,

Secs. 7 to 27, inclusive, and secs. 34 to 36, inclusive.

T. 9 S., R. 24 E.,

Secs. 1 and 2.

T. 7 S., R. 25 E.,

Secs. 12 to 18, inclusive, those parts lying south of the Little River;

Sec. 19;

Secs. 20 and 21, those parts lying south of the Little River;

Secs. 22 to 36, inclusive.

T. 8 S., R. 25 E.

T. 9 S., R. 25 E.,

Secs. 1 to 17, inclusive, and secs. 20 to 24, inclusive.

T. 7 S., R. 26 E.,

Secs. 9, 10, and 12 to 20, inclusive, those parts lying south of the Little River; Secs. 21 to 36, inclusive.

Tps. 8 and 9 S., R. 26 E.

T. 7 S., R. 27 E.,

Secs. 7, 16, 17, 18, those parts lying south of Little River;

Sec. 19;

Secs. 20 and 21, those parts lying south of Little River;

Secs. 28 to 33, inclusive.

T. 8 S., R. 27 E.,

Secs. 4 to 9, inclusive; secs. 16 to 21, inclusive, and secs. 28 to 33, inclusive.

T. 9 S., R. 27 E.,

Secs. 3 to 10, inclusive, secs. 15 to 22, inclusive, and secs. 27 to 34, inclusive.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

November 27, 1959.