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Executive Order 5349—Bird Island Wild Life Refuge

May 12, 1930

Utah

It is hereby ordered that Bird, or Hat, Island located about three miles north of Carrington Island, in Great Salt Lake, Utah, approximately in what would be, if surveyed, section 25, T. 4 N., R. 7 W., Salt Lake meridian, be, and the same is hereby, reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a refuge and breeding ground for wild animals and birds.

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 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 title 18, chapter 4, United States Code, or by section 10 of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of February 18, 1929 (45 Stat. 1224).

This refuge shall be known as the Bird Island Wild Life Refuge.

Signature of Herbert Hoover
HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,
May 12, 1930.

Herbert Hoover, Executive Order 5349—Bird Island Wild Life Refuge Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/372954

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