PUBLIC LAW 96-550—DEC. 19, 1980 Public Law 96-550 96th Congress
94 STAT. 3221
An Act To designate certain National Forest System lands in the State of New Mexico for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I SEC. 101. The purposes of this Act are to— (1) designate certain National Forest System lands in New Mexico for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System in order to promote, perpetuate, and preserve the wilderness character of the land, to protect watersheds and wildlife habitat, preserve scenic and historic resources, and to promote scientific research, primitive recreation, solitude, physical and mental challenge, and inspiration for the benefit of all the American people; (2) insure that certain other National Forest System lands in New Mexico be promptly available for nonwilderness uses including, but not limited to, campground and other recreation site development, timber harvesting, intensive range management, mineral development, and watershed and vegetation manipulation; and (3) designate certain other National Forest System land in New Mexico for further study in furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act. SEC. 102. (a) In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act, the following National Forest System lands in the State of New Mexico are hereby designated as wilderness, and therefore, as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System— (1) certain lands in the Gila National Forest, New Mexico, which comprise approximately two hundred and eleven thousand three hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Aldo Leopold Wilderness—Proposed", dated August 1980, and which shall be known as the Aldo Leopold Wilderness; (2) certain lands in the Cibola National Forest, New Mexico, which comprise approximately forty-five thousand acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 'Apache Kid Wilderness— Proposed", dated November 1980, and which shall be known as the Apache Kid Wilderness; (3) certain lands in the Apache and Gila National Forests, New Mexico, which comprise approximately thirty thousand acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled Blue Range Wilderness— Proposed", dated August 1980, and which shall be known as the Blue Range Wilderness; (4) certain lands in the Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico, which comprise approximately thirty-four thousand acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Capitan Mountains Wil-
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Dec. 19, 1980 [H.R. 8298]
National Forest System lands, N. Mex. Designation.
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16 USC 1132 note.
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