Executive Order 5760—Transfer of Lands from the Madison to the Gallatin National Forest, Montana

Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 36; U.S. Code, title 16, sec. 473), and on the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is hereby ordered that the following-described lands now parts of the Madison National Forest as defined by proclamation of September 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 1763-1764), be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the Gallatin National Forest:

All lands lying to the eastward of a line beginning on the east line of sec. 9, T. 2 S., R. 3 W., Montana meridian, at a point where the hydrographic divide between the North Willow Creek drainage on the east and the South Boulder River drainage on the west intersects said line; thence southwesterly along said divide, passing over Hollow Top Mountain and Potosi Peak to an intersection with the crest of the Tobacco Root Mountains at Granite Peak; thence in a southeasterly direction along the crest of said Tobacco Root Mountains to an intersection with the south line of sec. 8, T. 5 S., R. 2 W., Montana meridian; also those parts of the Madison National Forest lying in Tps. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 11 S., R. 1 E.; Tps. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 S., R. 2 E.; Tps. 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, and 13 S., R. 3 E.; Tps. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 S., R. 4 E.; Tps. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 S., R. 5 E., Montana meridian.

The transfers effected by this order and the new boundaries of the Gallatin National Forest are more clearly shown on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof. It is not intended by this order to give any publicly owned lands a national-forest status which have hitherto not had such status, nor to remove any publicly owned lands from a national-forest status.

HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,
December 16, 1931.