---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460vv–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460vv–1"
heading: "Additions to National Wilderness Preservation System"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460vv-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CVII — Winding Stair Mountain National Recreation and Wilderness Area"
---

# §460vv–1. Additions to National Wilderness Preservation System


In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 890, [16 U.S.C. 1131](/usc/16/1131.md) et seq.) the following lands in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Oklahoma are hereby designated as [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) and, therefore, as components of the [National Wilderness Preservation System](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13):

- (1) Certain lands in the Ouachita National Forest, Oklahoma, which comprise approximately 4,583 acres, as generally depicted on a [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Black Fork Mountain [Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13)—Proposed”, dated March 1988, and which shall be known as the Black Fork Mountain [Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13).
- (2) Certain lands in the Ouachita National Forest, Oklahoma, which comprise approximately 9,371 acres, as generally depicted on a [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Upper Kiamichi River [Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13)—Proposed”, dated March 1988, and which shall be known as the Upper Kiamichi River [Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–499, § 3, Oct. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 2492.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Wilderness Act of 1964, referred to in text, probably means the Wilderness Act, Pub. L. 88–577, Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 890, which is classified generally to chapter 23 (§ 1131 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1131 of this title and Tables.