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16 U.S.C. § 80aGeneral Grant National Park abolished; lands added to Kings Canyon National Park

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This section abolishes General Grant National Park and adds its former land, plus some additional acreage, to Kings Canyon National Park as the 'General Grant grove section.' The President can later extend that section to include more specifically described land, though this can't block free travel to and from national forest land on either side. All money for General Grant National Park goes to Kings Canyon National Park instead.

General Grant National Park no longer exists as its own park. Its former land — plus certain other specifically described parcels in the surrounding townships and sections, identified by township, range, and section numbers under the Mount Diablo meridian survey system — is added to Kings Canyon National Park, subject to any valid existing rights. This combined area is called the "General Grant grove section" of Kings Canyon National Park. The President can later expand the General Grant grove section, by proclamation, to include further specifically described parcels (again identified by section and, in some cases, by which side of the Generals Highway or the crest of Redwood Mountain they sit on). Any such expansion becomes subject to all the park's laws, rules, and regulations. But expanding the section this way cannot block the free, unpaid movement of livestock and vehicles to and from national forest land on either side of the expanded park area, under general rules the Secretary of the Interior sets. Kings Canyon National Park receives and gets to use all money that was appropriated for General Grant National Park, whether that money was appropriated before or after March 4, 1940.
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The General Grant National Park is abolished, and the west half of section 33, township 13 south, range 28 east, and west half of section 4, all of section 8 and the northwest quarter of section 9, township 14 south, range 28 east, Mount Diablo meridian, California, together with the lands formerly within the General Grant National Park, California, and particularly described as follows, to wit: All of sections 31 and 32, township 13 south, range 28 east, and sections 5 and 6, township 14 south, range 28 east, of the same meridian, are, subject to valid existing rights, added to and made a part of the Kings Canyon National Park and such lands shall be known as the General Grant grove section of the said park. The General Grant grove section of the Kings Canyon National Park may, by proclamation of the President, be extended to include the following described lands, to wit: Section 9, south half, section 10, southwest quarter, and that part of the east half south of Generals Highway; section 11, that part south of Generals Highway; section 13, that part south of Generals Highway; section 14, that part south of Generals Highway, section 15, east half, northwest quarter, and the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter, section 21, southeast quarter of the northeast quarter, and the east half of the southeast quarter; section 22, east half, east half of the northwest quarter, southwest quarter of the northwest quarter and southwest quarter; section 23; section 24, that part south of Generals Highway; sections 25 and 26; section 27, east half, northwest quarter, and that part of the southwest quarter north and east of the crest of Redwood Mountain; section 34, that part east of the crest of Redwood Mountain; sections 35 and 36, township 14 south, range 28 east; all of sections 1 and 2; section 3, that part east of the crest of Redwood Mountain; section 11, that part east and north of the crest of Redwood Mountain; all of section 12; section 13, that part north of the Sequoia National Park boundary, township 15 south, range 28 east, Mount Diablo meridian, which shall be subject to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the said park. Such extension of the General Grant grove section of the said park shall not interfere with the movement of stock and vehicular traffic without charge, under general regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, to and from national forest lands on either side of the said park extension. The Kings Canyon National Park shall receive and use all moneys prior to or after March 4, 1940, appropriated for General Grant National Park.

Source credit: (Mar. 4, 1940, ch. 40, § 2, 54 Stat. 43.)

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  • 1940Enacted · Act of Mar. 4, 1940, ch. 40 · 54 Stat. 43

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 40 on 1940-03-04.

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