Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110
§47 Additional Lands Excluded From Yosemite National Park and Added to Sierra National Forest
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER VI — SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS › § 47
Summary
A part of Yosemite National Park is removed from the park and made part of the Sierra National Forest. The law sets a detailed boundary for that change using specific township and section lines in township 4 south and township 3 south, ranges 20 and 21 east, beginning near the South Fork of the Merced River. The land will be governed by the same federal laws that apply to the Sierra National Forest. The Secretary of the Interior may charge a price for rights-of-way under the Act of February 15, 1901 and other rights-of-way laws. Any railroad right-of-way across the added land must not be used to haul logs or timber unless the Secretary allows it and creates rules for doing so.
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Title 16, §47
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That portion of the Yosemite National Park lying between the boundary line described in section 46 of this title and the line next herein described is excluded from said park and the said portion so described added to and made a part of the Sierra National Forest, to wit: Beginning at the point on the line between section 35 and 36, township 4 south, range 21 east, where same intersects the middle of the channel of the South Fork of the Merced River; thence north on section line to the southwest corner of section 25; thence west on section lines to the southwest corner of section 28; thence north on section line to the northwest corner of section 28; thence west on section line to the quarter-section corner between section 20 and 29; thence north through the middle of section 20 to the center thereof; thence east through the middle of section 20 to the quarter-section corner between section 20 and 21; thence north on section line to the quarter-section corner between section 16 and 17; thence west through middle of section 17 to the center thereof; thence north through the middle of section 17, 8, and 5 to the quarter-section corner of north boundary of section 5 on township boundary, all in township 4 south, range 21 east; thence north through the middle of section 32, township 3 south, range 21 east, to the center thereof; thence west through the middle of section 32, said township, and section 36, township 3 south, range 20 east, to the quarter-section corner between section 35 and 36; thence north on section line to the quarter-section corner between section 25 and 26; thence east through the middle of section 25 to the center thereof; thence north through the middle of section 25 and 24 to the center of section 24; thence west through the middle of section 24, 23, and 22 to the quarter-section corner between section 21 and 22, township 3 south, range 20 east, on the present western boundary of the Yosemite National Park. The above-indicated portion of land so made a part of the Sierra National Forest shall be subject to all of the Acts of Congress with relation thereto. The Secretary of the Interior may require the payment of such price as he may deem proper for privileges on the land herein segregated from the Yosemite National Park and made a part of the Sierra National Forest accorded under the Act approved February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one, relating to rights of way over certain parks, reservations, and other lands, and other sections concerning rights of way over public lands. In the grant of any right-of-way for railway purposes across the lands placed under this measure within the Sierra National Forest it shall be stipulated that no logs or timber shall be hauled over the same without the consent of the Secretary of the Interior and under regulations to be promulgated by him.
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The Act approved February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one, referred to in text, is act Feb. 15, 1901, ch. 372, 31 Stat. 790, which is classified to section 959 of Title 43, Public Lands. The Act, insofar as it related to National Park System units, was repealed and restated as section 100902(a) of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs, by Pub. L. 113–287, §§ 3, 7, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3094, 3272. Codification Section is derived from the second paragraph of section 1 of the Resolution of
June 11, 1906. The second paragraph, aforesaid, originally began with the following words omitted here “The south and west boundary lines of the Yosemite National Park are hereby changed as follows:” The first portion of this section before the colon was derived from a later portion of the original section reading as follows: “And all that portion of the Yosemite National Park lying between the boundary line last above mentioned and the present boundary line of said national park is excluded from said park; and the said lands so excluded, and all thereof, are added to and made a part of the Sierra Forest Reserve, and shall hereafter form a part of said Sierra Forest Reserve, and shall be subject to all of the Acts of Congress with relation thereto:” The words of the first sentence of this section “described in section 46 of this title” replace the words “present boundary line” hereinbefore quoted. For the first paragraph of the Resolution of
June 11, 1906, see section 48 of this title. “Sierra National Forest” substituted in text for “Sierra Forest Reserve” on authority of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests.
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16 U.S.C. § 47
Title 16, Conservation
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Sep 23, 2026
Release point: 119-110