Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§47c Acquisition of Certain Lands for Preservation and Consolidation of Timber Stands
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER VI — SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS › § 47c
Summary
The President can expand Yosemite National Park to protect and join nearby timber stands. He may do this only if both the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture recommend it, and he issues an official proclamation. The additions are specific land parcels in township 1 south, range 20 east, and in township 2 south, ranges 19 and 20 east, Mount Diablo meridian, totaling about 9,000 acres.
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
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102