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On the recordDecember 15, 1931
It is not intended by this order to give any publicly owned lands a national forest status which have hitherto not had such status, nor to remove any publicly owned lands from a national-forest status.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Executive Order 5761—Transfer of Lands from the Bitterroot and the Missoula to the Lolo National Forest, Montana

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