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§460aa–1 Administration

Title 16 › Chapter 1— NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter LXXXV— SAWTOOTH NATIONAL RECREATION AREA › § 460aa–1

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must manage the recreation area like a national forest. Management must protect salmon and other fish, keep and develop scenic, historic, wildlife, pastoral, and other values for public recreation (including places that show the American West’s economic and social history), and allow use of federal resources (timber, grazing, minerals) only if those uses do not seriously harm the area’s purposes. Land called the Sawtooth Wilderness Area is run under both this subchapter and the Wilderness Act, using whichever rules are stricter. Any reference to the Wilderness Act’s effective date is treated as the effective date of this subchapter.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460aa–1

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(a)The Secretary shall administer the recreation area in accordance with the laws, rules and regulations applicable to the national forests in such manner as will best provide (1) the protection and conservation of the salmon and other fisheries; (2) the conservation and development of scenic, natural, historic, pastoral, wildlife, and other values, contributing to and available for public recreation and enjoyment, including the preservation of sites associated with and typifying the economic and social history of the American West; and (3) the management, utilization, and disposal of natural resources on federally owned lands such as timber, grazing, and mineral resources insofar as their utilization will not substantially impair the purposes for which the recreation area is established.
(b)The lands designated as the Sawtooth Wilderness Area, which supersedes the Sawtooth Primitive Area, shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter and the provisions of the Wilderness Act [16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.], whichever is more restrictive, except that any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective date of this subchapter.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Wilderness Act, referred to in subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 88–577, Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 890, which is classified generally to chapter 23 (§ 1131 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1131 of this title and Tables. The

Effective Date

of the Wilderness Act, referred to in subsec. (b), means Sept. 3, 1964, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 88–577, which enacted chapter 23 of this title. The

Effective Date

of this subchapter, referred to in subsec. (b), means Aug. 22, 1972, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 92–400, which enacted this subchapter.

Reference

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 460aa–1

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60