Official Document Text
Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)
Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 36; U.S. Code, title 16, sec. 473), and on the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is hereby ordered that the following-described lands, now parts of the Boise National Forest as defined by proclamation of December 24, 1910 (36 Stat. 2773 ), as subsequently modified, and of the Challis National Forest as defined by proclamation of May 19, 1913 (38 Stat. 1944–1945), as subsequently modified, be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the Sawtooth National Forest: FROM THE BOISE NATIONAL FOREST All lands lying in T. 4 N., R. 10 E., Tps. 3 N., Rs. 10 and 11 E., and T. 2 N., R. 10 E., Boise meridian, east of a line beginning at a point on the south line of sec. 33, T. 5 N., R. 10 E., Boise meridian, where the divide separating the drainage of Steel Creek and Bear Creek on the west from Feather River drainage on the east intersects said section line; thence southerly following said divide to the point of confluence of Bear Creek with Feather River; thence southerly following Feather River and Boise River to the intersection of the latter with the south line of sec. 5, T. 2 N., R. 10 E., Boise meridian; also all lands in said Boise National Forest in Tps. 1 N., Rs. 10, 11, and 12 E., and Tps. 1 S., Rs. 10 and 11 E., Boise meridian, lying east of a line beginning on the south line of sec. 15, T. 1 N., R. 10 E., where the divide between Moores, Big Springs, and Camas Creeks on the east, and Louise, Wood, Kettle, Castle Rock, Cat, and Chimney Creeks on the west intersects said section line; thence southerly following said divide to the point where it intersects the south line of sec. 31, T. 1 S., R. 10 E., Boise meridian. FROM THE CHALLIS NATIONAL FOREST All lands in Tps. 10 N., Rs. 12 and 13 E. and in unsurveyed secs. 1 and 12, T. 9 N., R. 12 E., Boise meridian, lying south of a line beginning at the point where the present boundary of said Challis National Forest intersects the east range line of T. 10 N., R. 13 E., Boise meridian; thence in a southwesterly direction following the divide which separates the waters of Little Casino Creek on the north and Cleveland Creek on the south; thence crossing the Salmon River in sec. 26, T. 10 N., R. 13 E. Boise Meridian to the divide between Meadow Creek and Goat Creek on the north, and Fish Hook Creek on the south; thence continuing along said divide to Thompson Peak (Iron triangulation station). It is further ordered that the following-described lands now a part of the Sawtooth National Forest as defined by proclamation of May 19, 1913 (38 Stat. 1946- 1947), as subsequently modified, be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the Boise National Forest: All lands lying to the west of that part of the Atlanta Road beginning at the point where said road intersects the east line of sec. 22, T. 5 N., R. 10 E., Boise meridian; thence in a southwesterly direction along said road to a point in sec. 33, said township, where the divide between Elk Creek on the east and Steel Creek on the west intersects said road; thence in a southeasterly direction following said divide to its intersection with the south line of said sec. 33; also that part of sec. 22, T. 4 N., R. 10 E., lying south and west of Feather River. The transfers effected by this order and the new boundaries of the Sawtooth National Forest are more clearly shown on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof. It is not intended by this order to give any publicly owned lands a national-forest status which have hitherto not had such status nor to remove any publicly owned lands from a national-forest status. HERBERT HOOVER The White House, September 21, 1932.