Executive Order 7212—Addition to Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge

MINNESOTA AND 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 Wabasha County, Minnesota, and Buffalo County, Wisconsin, situated on either side of or upon islands 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:

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,
October 24, 1935.