Executive Order 405-B

It is hereby ordered that the hereinafter described land and water areas in the District of Alaska be, and they are hereby, reserved and set apart as a site for a salmon hatchery, subject to the possessory rights of the natives and of persons claiming title through the Russian Government, also subject to the rights of natives to take fish from the waters and fuel from the forests included in the limits of the reservation hereby established, to wit:

Yes Lake (otherwise known as Lake McDonald) and its catchment basin, its outlet, and a strip of land one-eighth of a mile wide along each shore thereof; Yes Bay, Back Bay, and a strip of land one-eighth of a mile wide along the shores thereof and a strip of land one-eighth of a mile wide on each side of the old Indian trail.

Theodore Roosevelt.

The White House, February 1, 1906.