Executive Order 7185—Addition to Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge

WISCONSIN

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of June 25, 1910 (ch. 421, 36 Stat. 847), as amended by the act of August 24, 1912 (ch. 369, 37 Stat. 497), and as President of the United States, and in order to effectuate further the purposes of the Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge Act (43 Stat. 650) and the Migratory Bird Conservation Act (45 Stat. 1222), it is ordered that the following-described lands in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, situated on Lost Island (also known as Somerfield Island), Belvidere Island, and four other small islands adjacent thereto in the Mississippi River between Rock Island, Illinois, and Wabasha, Minnesota, and subject to overflow by the said river, which lands have been determined by the Secretary of Agriculture to be suitable for the purposes of the said Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge Act, be, and they are hereby, reserved and set apart, subject to valid existing rights, for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a breeding place for migratory birds, other wild birds, game animals, fur-bearing animals, fish and other aquatic animal life, and for the conservation of wild flowers and aquatic plants, to be administered as a part of the Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge:

FOURTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN

T. 20 N., R. 12 W., sec. 6, lot 13;
                                sec. 7, lots 9, 10, 11, and 12;
                                sec. 17, lot 6;
                                sec. 18, lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, NE¼SW¼, and SE¼SW¼;
                                sec. 19, lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5;
                                sec. 20, lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10;
                                sec. 29, lot 2.

T. 20 N., R. 13 W., sec. 1, lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14;
                                 sec. 12, lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, NW¼NE¼, SW¼NE¼, SE¼NE¼, NE¼NW¼, NE¼SE¼, NW¼SE¼, and SE¼SE¼;
                                 sec. 13, lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and NE¼NE¼;
                                 sec. 24, lot 1.

The above-described lands have been acquired by the United States through judicial proceedings and are primarily under the jurisdiction of the War Department, and their reservation as a wild-life refuge is subject to the use thereof by said Department in connection with the improvement of navigation in the Mississippi River; and the uses thereof, and the enforcement of law and regulations thereon, by the Department of Agriculture shall be without interference with any existing or future uses or regulations of the War Department.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
September 20, 1935.