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FDR: “It is not intended by this order to give a national-forest status to any publicly-owned lands which do not now have such…”

On the recordSeptember 18, 1940
It is not intended by this order to give a national-forest status to any publicly-owned lands which do not now have such status, or to remove any publicly-owned lands from a national-forest status.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Executive Order 8544—Transfer of Lands From the Lolo National Forest to the Helena National Forest

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