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Title 16
» Chapter CHAPTER 1— NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER V— YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
The tract of land in the States of Montana and Wyoming, lying near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River and described as follows, to wit, commencing at the junction of Gardiner’s River, with the Yellowstone River, and running east to the meridian passing ten miles to the eastward of the most eastern point of Yellowstone Lake; thence south along said meridian to the parallel of latitude passing ten miles south of the most southern point of Yellowstone Lake; thence west along said parallel to the meridian passing fifteen miles west of the most western point of Madison Lake; thence north along said meridian to the latitude of the junction of the Yellowstone and Gardiner’s Rivers; thence east to the place of beginning, is reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people; and all persons who locate, or settle upon, or occupy any part of the land thus set apart as a public park, except as provided in section 22 of this title, shall be considered trespassers and removed therefrom.
Notes of Decisions
Int'l Snowmobile Mfrs. Ass'n v. Norton, 340 F. Supp. 2d 1249 (D. Wyo. 2004).
· cites it 2× “16 U.S.C. §21 . In 1882, Congress set aside two million acres “as a public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.”
Edmonds Inst. v. Babbitt, 93 F. Supp. 2d 63 (D.D.C. 2000).
· cites it 4× “, the Yellowstone National Park Organic Act, 16 U.S.C. § 21 , et seq., the National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.”
Nat'l Rifle Ass'n of Am. v. Potter, 628 F. Supp. 903 (D.D.C. 1986).
“” 16 U.S.C. § 21 (1982). By 1916, 13 national parks and 19 national monuments had been established, responsibility for their administration, however, having been dispersed among a number of government agencies, including the Departments of Interior, Agriculture and War.”
Edmonds Inst. v. Babbitt, 42 F. Supp. 2d 1 (D.D.C. 1999).
“” 16 U.S.C. § 21 . Today, the Park includes more than two million acres in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.”
Greater Yellowstone Coalition v. Babbitt, 952 F. Supp. 1435 (D. Mont. 1996).
“Next, Plaintiffs assert pursuant to the Yellowstone Act, 16 U.S.C. § 21 et seq., that the Yellowstone anti-poaching statute applies to the NPS.”
Ashley v. United States, 215 F. Supp. 39 (D. Neb. 1963).
“” 16 U.S.C.A. § 21 . Section 22 authorizes the Secretary of Interior to make regulations providing for “the preservation, from injury or spoliation, of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders, within the park, and their retention in their natural condition”…”
Belville Min. Co., Inc. v. United States, 763 F. Supp. 1411 (S.D. Ohio 1991).
“There is a distinction between National Parks created by 16 U.S.C. §§ 21 , et seq., and National Forests created by 16 U.”
L & W Constr., LLC v. United States (Fed. Cl. 2020).
“¶ 13 (quoting 16 U.S.C. §§ 21 , 36 (2018)). The Forest Service has the authority to regulate use and occupancy of the National Forest System, including dictating where hunting may occur within the National Forests.”
State of Wyoming v. Npca (10th Cir. 2012).
“§ 1 , and the statutes establishing Yellowstone and Grand Teton, 16 U.S.C. §§ 21–40, 406d-1, by arbitrarily restricting snowmobile access in spite of evidence which demonstrates that NPS could permit more snowmobiles without causing unacceptable impacts or impairment to park…”
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