Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 9166—Establishing the Lamesteer National Wildlife Refuge

May 19, 1942

MONTANA

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered that all lands and waters owned or controlled by the United States within the following-described area, comprising 800 acres, more or less, of non-public lands in Wibaux County, Montana, be, and they are hereby, reserved and set apart, subject to valid rights, for the use of the Department of the Interior as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife:

PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN

T. 12 N., R. 60 E.,
     sec. 14, SW¼;
     sec. 15, all.

It is unlawful for any person to pursue, hunt, trap, capture, willfully disturb, or kill any bird or wild animal of any kind whatsoever within the limits of the refuge, or to enter thereon, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.

This reservation shall be known as the Lamesteer National Wildlife Refuge.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
May 19, 1942.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 9166—Establishing the Lamesteer National Wildlife Refuge Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/372275

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