---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460mm"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460mm"
heading: "Establishment of conservation area"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460mm"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XCVIII — Steese National Conservation Area and White Mountains National Recreation Area"
---

# §460mm. Establishment of conservation area

- (a) **In general—** In order to provide for the immediate and future protection of the lands in Federal ownership within the framework of a program of [multiple use](/usc/16/531.md?p=a) and sustained yield and for the maintenance of environmental quality, the Steese National Conservation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) is hereby established.
- (b) **Boundaries; special values—** The Steese National Conservation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall include approximately one million two hundred twenty thousand acres of [public lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=7), as generally depicted on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Steese National Conservation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A)—proposed”, and dated October 1978. Special values to be considered in planning and management of the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) are: caribou range and Birch Creek.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–487, title IV, § 401, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2396.)