Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73
§47c Acquisition of certain lands for preservation and consolidation of timber stands
Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VI— - SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS › § 47c
Summary
The President may add about 9,000 acres to Yosemite’s western edge to protect and bring together certain timber stands if both the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture recommend it. The lands are the named whole, half, and quarter sections in township 1 south, range 20 east, and township 2 south, ranges 19 and 20 east, Mount Diablo meridian.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §47c
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For the purpose of preserving and consolidating certain timber stands along the western boundary of the Yosemite National Park, the President of the United States is authorized, upon the joint recommendation of the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture, to add to said park by Executive proclamation any or all of the following-described lands: section 19, 20, 29, 30, 31, and 32, township 1 south, range 20 east, Mount Diablo meridian; east half section 1; east half section 12; southeast quarter section 24, township 2 south, range 19 east, Mount Diablo meridian; section 4, 5, and 6; north half section 7; section 8 and 9, and 19 and 20, township 2 south, range 20 east, Mount Diablo meridian, approximately nine thousand acres.
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Citation
16 U.S.C. § 47c
Title 16 — Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73