---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410c"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410c"
heading: "Preservation of primitive condition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410c"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIV — Everglades National Park"
---

# §410c. Preservation of primitive condition


The said [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) or [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall be permanently reserved as a [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13), and no development of the [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) or plan for the entertainment of visitors shall be undertaken which will interfere with the preservation intact of the unique flora and fauna and the essential primitive natural conditions now prevailing in this [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).


## Source credit

(May 30, 1934, ch. 371, § 4, 48 Stat. 817.)