---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 161a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "161a"
heading: "Part of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/161a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XX — Glacier National Park"
---

# §161a. Part of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park


For the purpose of permanently commemorating the long-existing relationship of peace and good will existing between the people and Governments of Canada and the United States and upon the enactment by the proper authority of the Canadian Government of a similar provision respecting the Waterton Lakes National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) in the Province of Alberta, and upon the proclamation of the President of the United States, who is authorized to issue such a proclamation, the Glacier National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Montana shall become a part of an international [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) to be known as the Waterton-Glacier International Peace [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).


## Source credit

(May 2, 1932, ch. 157, § 1, 47 Stat. 145.)