---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 C.F.R. § 261.21"
title: "36"
number: "261.21"
heading: "National Forest primitive areas."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/36/261.21"
---

# §261.21. National Forest primitive areas.


The following are prohibited in any area classified as a National Forest Primitive Area on September 3, 1964:

- (a) Landing of aircraft or using a motor boat, unless such use had become well established before September 3, 1964.
- (b) Possessing or using a motor or motorized equipment, except small battery powered, hand-held devices, such as cameras, shavers, flashlights, and Geiger-counters.

## Notes

### Amendments

[42 FR 35959, July 13, 1977. Redesignated at 70 FR 68291, Nov. 9, 2005]

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1011(f); 16 U.S.C. 460l-6d, 472, 551, 620(f), 1133(c)-(d)(1), 1246(i).

### Source

Source: 42 FR 2957, Jan. 14, 1977, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[42 FR 35959, July 13, 1977. Redesignated at 70 FR 68291, Nov. 9, 2005]