Executive Order 7129—Authorizing the Acquisition of Land on Isle Royale for Emergency Conservation Work

Whereas various lands owned by the United States on Isle Royale in Lake Superior in the State of Michigan lack disease control and adequate and proper protection from forest fires, floods, soil erosion, and plant pest by reason of the present condition of privately owned lands contiguous thereto or intermingled therewith; and

Whereas the acquisition by the United States of such privately owned lands will permit work and improvements thereon that will provide for the aforesaid public lands disease control and protection from forest fires, floods, soil erosion, and plant pest, and will aid in the restoration of the country's depleted natural resources; and

Whereas the acquisition of such lands will further provide employment for citizens of the United States who are unemployed:

Now, Therefore, by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of March 31, 1933 (ch. 17, 48 Stat. 22), as extended by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 (Public Resolution No. 11, 74th Congress), the acquisition of such of the aforesaid lands, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, as are suitable and necessary for the aforesaid purposes, is hereby authorized; and by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Fourth Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1933 (48 Stat. 274, 275), and the said Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the sum of $705,000 is hereby allocated for the acquisition, in fee simple, of the said lands (including $5,000 for expenses incident to acquisition) from the appropriation made by the said Deficiency Act for carrying into effect the provisions of the said act of March 31, 1933.

The sum herein allocated for the acquisition of the said lands shall be transferred by the Treasury Department to the credit of the War Department and shall, upon request of the Chief of Finance, under the direction of the Director of Emergency Conservation Work, be transferred by the Treasury to the credit of the Department of the Interior; and the funds so transferred shall be withdrawn on requisition by the Director of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, for the acquisition of the said lands and may be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior either by the Director of the National Park Service or by such other agency or agencies, Federal or otherwise, as the Secretary of the Interior may designate.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
August 6, 1935.