Establishing the ANWR

[Public Land Order 2214]
[Fairbanks 017050]
ALASKA
Establishing the Arctic National Wildlife Range
By virtue of the authority vested in the President, and pursuant
to Executive Order No. 10355 of May 26, 1952, it is ordered as
follows:
1. For the purpose of preserving unique wildlife, wilderness
and recreational values, all of the hereinafter described area in
northeastern Alaska, containing approximately 8,900,000 acres is
hereby, subject to valid existing withdrawals, withdrawn from all
forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the
mining but not the mineral leasing laws, nor disposals of materials
under the Act of July 31, 1947 (61 Stat. 681; 30 U.S.C. 601-604),
as amended, and reserved for use of the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service as the Arctic National Wildlife Range;
Beginning at the intersection of the International Boundary line
between Alaska and Yukon Territory, Canada, with the line of
extreme low water of the Arctic Ocean in the Vicinity of
Monument 1 of said International Boundary line;
thence westerly along the said line of extreme low water, including
all offshore bars, reefs, and islands to a point of land on the
Arctic Seacoast know as Brownlow Point, at approximate
longitude 145o51' W., and latitude 70o10' N.;
thence in a southwesterly direction approximately three (3) miles to
the mean high water mark of the extreme west bank of the
Canning River;
thence southerly up the said west bank of the Canning River along
the mean high water mark approximately seventy (70) miles to
the mouth of Marsh Fork of Canning River at approximately
longitude 145o53' W., and latitude 69o12' N., and 10½ miles E.
of Mt. Salisbury;
thence continuing in a southerly direction up the west bank of the
Canning River approximately fourteen (14) miles to another
fork of the river at approximate longitude 145o40' W., and
latitude 69o00' N.;
thence easterly up the south bank of the stream approximately
fifteen (15) miles to its source at the crest of an unnamed
mountain whose elevation is approximately 7,900 feet and
whose location is at approximate longitude 145o13' W., and
latitude 68o53' N.;
thence southeasterly down the west and south banks of a stream
which is tributary to the east fork of the Chandalar River
approximately eighteen (18) miles to its junction with the
Chandalar River at approximately longitude 144o47' W., and
latitude 68o42' N.;
thence up the east bank of the said Chandalar River approximately
three (3) miles to a point opposite the south bank of a tributary
stream which flows from the southeast;
thence up the south bank of the said tributary stream approximately
fifteen (15) miles to the crest of a mountain at the head of a
branch of Old Woman Creek whose elevation is approximately
7,400 feet and whose location is approximate longitude 144o14'
W., and latitude 68o41' N.;
thence in a generally southerly direction down the west and south
banks of the said branch of Old Woman Creek approximately
fifteen (15) miles to its junction with Old Woman Creek;
thence southeasterly down the south bank of Old Woman Creek
approximately twelve and one-half (12 ½) miles to the point
where said creek intersects a straight line projected from
Brushman Mountain to Index Mountain;
thence approximately two and one-half (2 ½) miles south along
said line to its intersection with a north fork of Monument
Creek;

thence southerly down the west bank of said fork to its junction
with Monument Creek;
thence down the west and south banks of Monument Creek
approximately sixteen and one-half (16 ½) miles to a point on
the east bank of Sheenjak River opposite the mouth of
Monument Creek;
thence northeasterly up the east bank of the Sheenjak River
approximately eight and one-half (8 ½) miles to its junction with
a tributary which flows from the east, at approximately
longitude 143o09' W., and latitude 68o05' N.;
thence up the east and south banks of the said tributary stream
approximately ten (10) miles to a fork in the stream one-half (½)
mile above a one and one-half (1 ½) mile lake, at approximate
longitude 142o52' W., and latitude 68o11' N.;
thence up the south bank of the main south fork of the stream
approximately eight (8) miles to the crest of the saddle where it
arises at approximate longitude 142o35' W., and latitude 68o14'
N.;
thence easterly from the said saddle following down the south bank
of a stream which arises at approximately this point for
approximately eleven (11) miles to its junction with the Coleen
River at approximate longitude 142o10' W., and latitude 68o15'
N.;
thence following down the west bank of the Coleen River along
the mean high water mark for approximately eight (8) miles to
its junction with the tributary stream which flows into the
Coleen River from the east at approximate longitude 141o57'
W., and latitude 68o10' N.;
thence up the east and south bank of the said tributary stream in a
northeasterly direction to the saddle between its headwaters and
those of Bilwaddy Creek at approximate longitude 141o 32' W.,
and latitude 68o14' N.;
thence down the south bank of the said Bilwaddy Creek
approximately eighteen (18) miles to the International Boundary
line between Alaska and Yukon Territory, being a point located
at approximate longitude 141o00' W., and latitude 68o11' N.;
thence north with the said International Boundary line
approximately one hundred (100) miles to the point of
beginning.
2. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to permit the
hunting and the taking of game animals, birds, and fish in the
wildlife range, or parts thereof, as well as the trapping of fur
animals. However, no person may hunt, trap, capture, kill, or
willfully disturb any wild mammal, wild bird, or fish, or take or
destroy the eggs or nests of any such bird or fish within the
wildlife range, except as may be prescribed by the Secretary. The
provisions of State law shall govern all hunting and taking of
wildlife which the Secretary of the Interior permits under the terms
of this order.
Fred A. Seaton,
Secretary of the Interior.
December 6, 1960.
[F.R. Doc. 60-11510; Filed, Dec. 8, 1960; 8:53 a.m.]