Proclamation 3890—Enlarging the Katmai National Monument, Alaska

Whereas, the Katmai National Monument in Alaska was established by Proclamation No. 1487 of September 24, 1918, to preserve an area that is of significant importance in the study of volcanism and the monument was subsequently enlarged to include other areas containing features and objects of historical and scientific interest; and

Whereas, only a part of Naknek Lake is included within the present boundaries of the monument and the inclusion of all of such lake and its shores is necessary for the protection of the ecological and other scientific values of this lake and the existing monument; and

Whereas, under section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225, 16 U.S.C. 431), the President is authorized "to declare by public proclamation * * * objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments, and may reserve as a part thereof parcels of land, the limits of which in all cases shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected:"

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States, under the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, supra, do proclaim that, subject to valid existing rights, the lands owned or controlled by the United States within the following described boundary are hereby added to and made a part of the Katmai National Monument:

SEWARD MERIDIAN, ALASKA

Beginning at a point on the westerly boundary of the Katmai National Monument at its intersection with the southerly line of T185 R41W, (unsurveyed);

Thence westerly along said township line through Rs. 41, 42 and 43 W, (unsurveyed), to the southwest corner of T18S, R43W, (unsurveyed);

Thence northerly along the west line of Tps. 18 and 17 S, R43W, (unsurveyed), to the northwest corner of T17S, R43W, (unsurveyed);

Thence easterly along the north line of T175, R43W, (unsurveyed), and the south line of T165, R43W, (unsurveyed), to the southwest corner of sec. 34, T16S, R43W, (unsurveyed);

Thence northerly along the west line of said sec. 34 to the north-west corner thereof;

Thence easterly along the north line of secs. 34, 35 and 36, T16S, R43W, (unsurveyed), secs. 31 through 36, T16S, R42W, (unsurveyed), and secs. 31, 32, 33 and 34, T16S, R41W, (unsurveyed), to its intersection with the westerly line of Katmai National Monument;

Thence southwesterly and southeasterly along the westerly boundary of the Katmai National Monument to the Point of Beginning, containing approximately 94,547 acres.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any feature of this monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof.

Any reservations or withdrawals heretofore made which affect the lands described above are hereby revoked. This proclamation shall not affect any claims, as described in section 4 of the Alaska State hood Act (72 Stat. 339), of Alaska natives to the lands within the monument area.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-third.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON