Executive Order 5314

It is hereby ordered that the public land of the United States, situate in Alfalfa County, Okla., as segregated by the broken line upon the diagram hereto attached and made part of this order be and the same is hereby reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a refuge and breeding ground for birds, subject to existing valid rights.

It is unlawful, within this reservation, (a) to hunt, trap, capture, willfully disturb, or kill any wild animal or bird of any kind whatever, or take or destroy the eggs of any wild bird, to occupy or use any part of the reservation, or enter thereon for any purpose, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture; (b) to cut, burn, or destroy any timber, underbrush, grass, or other natural growth; (c) willfully to leave or suffer fire to burn unattended near any timber or other inflammable material; (d) after building a fire in or near any forest, timber, or other inflammable material, to leave it without totally extinguishing it; and (e) willfully to injure, molest, or destroy any property of the United States.

Warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated, under the penalties prescribed by sections 106, 107, and 145 of title 18, chapter 4, United States Code, or by the act of February 18, 1929 (U. S. Code, Supp. III, title 16, ch. 7a, sec. 715i).

This refuge shall be known as the Salt Plains Wild Life Refuge.

Herbert Hoover⁠

The White House,

March 26, 1930.

Notes

See Related:

• Executive Order 6964, February 5, 1935;
• Executive Order 7925, July 5, 1938;
• Proclamation 2416, July 25, 1940