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Executive Order 5914—Long Lake Migratory Bird Refuge in North Dakota Enlarged

August 26, 1932

It is hereby ordered that the Long Lake Migratory Bird Refuge, N. Dak., enlarged by Executive Order No. 5808, dated February 25, 1932, be, and the same is hereby, further enlarged to include the following-described area:

Fifth Principal Meridian

T. 137 N., R. 75 W., sec. 18, SE. ¼ SE. ¼.

It is unlawful within this reservation (a) to hunt, trap, capture, willfully disturb, or kill any wild animal or bird of any kind whatever, to take or destroy the nests or eggs of any wild bird, to occupy or use any part of the reservation, or to enter thereon for any purpose, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture; (b) to cut, burn, or destroy any timber, underbrush, grass, or other natural growth; (c) willfully to leave fire or to suffer it to burn unattended near any forest, timber, or other inflammable material; (d) after building a fire in or near any forest, timber, or other inflammable material, to leave it without totally extinguishing it; and (e) willfully to injure, molest, or destroy any property of the United States.

Warning is given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated, under the penalties prescribed by sections 106, 107, and 145 of chapter 4, title 18, United States Code (35 Stat. 1088, 1098, and 43 Stat. 98), or by section 10 of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of February 18, 1929 (45 Stat. 1222, 1224; U.S. Code, Supp. V, title 16, sec. 715i).

Signature of Herbert Hoover
HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,
August 26, 1932.

Herbert Hoover, Executive Order 5914—Long Lake Migratory Bird Refuge in North Dakota Enlarged Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/361493

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