Summary

Executive Order 10850

WHEREAS certain areas of land chiefly in private ownership were included within the exterior boundaries of certain national forests in the States of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and South Carolina, in anticipation of acquisition of such lands by the United States for national-forest purposes, pursuant to section 7 of the act of March 1, 1911, 36 Stat.
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Executive Order 10850

WHEREAS, because of changes in land use and for other reasons, it is no longer desirable that such lands be acquired for national-forest purposes, and they may properly be excluded from the exterior boundaries of the national forests
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Executive Order 10850

Beginning at Pigeon Gap, at a point where North Carolina State Highway No. 294 passes through the Lickstone Ridge-Radcliff Mountain Range; thence southerly and westerly with the meanders of the top of Lickstone Ridge and 4.4 miles to Richland Balsam Mountain on the Jackson-Haywood County line, the present proclaimed boundary.
All that part described in Division 2 of said proclamation lying south and east of the following described line:
Beginning at a point in the present proclaimed boundary on the French Broad River at Barnard
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