Franklin D. Roosevelt

Proclamation 2244—Enlarging Harney National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming

July 12, 1937

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas it appears that it would be in the public interest to add certain hereinafter-described lands to the Harney National Forest in South Dakota and Wyoming:

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the power vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1095, 1103, as amended (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 471), and the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 11, 34, 36 (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 473), do proclaim that, subject to all valid existing rights, all lands of the United States within the following-described areas are hereby included in and reserved as a part of the Harney National Forest, and that all lands within such areas which may hereafter be acquired by the United States for forestry purposes shall upon acquisition be reserved and administered as part of such Forest:

BLACK HILLS MERIDIAN

T. 8 S., R. 3 E.,

secs. 1, 12, 13, 24, 25 and 36;

sec. 35, S½NE¼, SE¼NW¼, NE¼SW¼, S½SW¼ and SE¼;

T. 6 S., R. 4 E.,

sec. l, SW¼NE¼, NW¼ and S½,

secs. 2, 11, 12, 13,

secs. 20 to 29, and 33 to 36, inclusive;

T. 7 S., R. 4 E.,

secs. 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12,

secs. 25 to 29, and 31 to 36, inclusive;

T. 8 S., R. 4 E.,

secs. 1 to 33, inclusive,

all of secs. 34 and 35 lying north and west of the Cheyenne River,

all sec. 36 lying north of said river;

T. 9 S., R. 4 E.,

all sec. 2 lying west of said river,

sec. 3, all of E½ and N½NW¼ lying north and west and of S½SW¼ lying south and west of said river,

all sec. 4 lying west of said river,

sec. 6, E½, sec. 6, E½NE¼,

sec. 9,

all sec. 10 lying west of said river;

T. 6 S., R. 5 E.,

all of secs. 5 and 6 not part of the national forest, sec. 7,

sec. 8, NE¼ and W½,

sec. 9, S½NW¼ and SW¼,

sec. 16, W½,

sec. 17, NW¼NE¼ and N½NW¼,

sec. 18, N½NE¼, SW¼NE¼, W½ and W½SE¼;

sec. l9, W½NE¼,NW¼ and S½,

sec. 20, E½NE¼, NW¼SW¼, S½SW¼, NE¼SE¼ and S½SE¼,

sec. 21, NE¼NE¼, S½NE¼, NW¼NW¼, S½NW¼ and S½,

secs. 22, and 27 to 34, inclusive;

T. 7 S., R. 5 E.,

secs. 3 to 10, inclusive,

secs. 15, 16, 21, 22, and

secs. 25 to 36, inclusive;

T. 8 S., R. 5 E.,

secs. 1 to 30, inclusive,

all of secs. 31 and 32 lying north and east of the Cheyenne River, and

secs. 33, 34, 35 and 36;

T. 9 S..R.5 E.,

all of secs. 1 and 2 lying north of said river,

secs. 3 and 4,

all sec. 6 lying east of said river,

all of secs. 8 to 12, inclusive, lying north of said river;

T. 7 S., R. 6 E.,

all of secs. 30, 32 and 33 lying south and west of Fall River,

and sec. 31;

T. 8 S., R. 6 E.,

all sec. 4 lying west of the Cheyenne and Fall Rivers,

secs. 5, 6 and 7,

all of secs. 8, 9, 10 and 17 lying north and west of the Cheyenne River,

secs. 18, 19,30 and 31, and

all of secs. 20, 28, 29, 32 and 33 lying west of said river;

T.9 S..R.6 E.,

sec. 4, all of N½ lying south and west and all of S½ lying north and west of said river,

all of secs. 5, 7 and 8 lying north and west of said river, and

sec. 6.

The reservation made by this proclamation supersedes as to any of the abovedescribed lands affected thereby the temporary withdrawals for classification and other purposes made by Executive Orders No. 6888 of October 29, 1934, and No. 6909 of November 21, 1934.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this 12th day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Proclamation 2244—Enlarging Harney National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/357480

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