---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 408h"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "408h"
heading: "Federally owned lands within park boundaries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/408h"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LII — Isle Royale National Park"
---

# §408h. Federally owned lands within park boundaries


All federally owned lands within the boundaries of the Isle Royale National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) are made a part of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3): Provided, That the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Navy shall retain control and jurisdiction, for lighthouse purposes, over Menagerie Island, located in township 64 north, range 35 west, and an unsurveyed island known as Rock of Ages, situated in approximate sections [7](/usc/16/7.md) and [18](/usc/16/18.md), township 63 north, range 39 west, and also shall retain the right to maintain existing floating and shore aids to navigation and to establish and maintain additional aids to navigation within the established [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) when so required by general navigation.


## Source credit

(Mar. 6, 1942, ch. 152, § 4, 56 Stat. 138; July 27, 1942, ch. 526, 56 Stat. 722.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1942—Act July 27, 1942, substituted “Secretary of the Navy” for “Secretary of the Treasury”.