NORTH DAKOTA
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered that all lands owned or controlled by the United States within the following-described area, comprising 640.00 acres, more or less, in Walsh County, North Dakota, be, and they are hereby, reserved and set apart, subject to valid rights, for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife:
FIFTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN
T. 155 N., R. 58 W., sec. 21, all.
It is unlawful for any person to pursue, hunt, trap, capture, willfully disturb, or kill any bird or wild animal of any kind whatsoever within the limits of the refuge, or to enter thereon, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture.
This reservation shall be known as the Pioneer Lake Migratory Waterfowl Refuge.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
The White House,
June 12, 1939.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 8163—Establishing Pioneer Lake Migratory Waterfowl Refuge Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/368666