---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 471a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "471a"
heading: "Forest reserves in New Mexico and Arizona restricted"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/471a"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Forests"
  - "Subchapter I — Establishment and Administration"
---

# §471a. Forest reserves in New Mexico and Arizona restricted


No forest reservation shall be created, nor shall any [additions](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) be made to one created prior to June 15, 1926, within the limits of the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) of New Mexico and Arizona except by Act of Congress.


## Source credit

(June 15, 1926, ch. 587, 44 Stat. 745.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Forest reservation, referred to in text, probably should be “national forest”. See act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests.