---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 680"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "680"
heading: "Game animal and bird refuge in South Dakota; establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/680"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection"
---

# §680. Game animal and bird refuge in South Dakota; establishment


Subject to valid rights and entries initiated under the public land laws, prior to June 7, 1924, any or all of the following described lands in Government ownership may be withdrawn from entry and disposition by proclamation of the President for the purpose of protecting and propagating antelope and other game animals and birds: National [forest lands](/usc/16/544.md?p=f)—Township 18 north, range 7 east, Black Hills meridian, [section 24](/usc/16/24.md), south half, and south half north half; [section 25](/usc/16/25.md), all; township 18 north, range 8 east, sections [17](/usc/16/17.md) to 20, inclusive; [section 21](/usc/16/21.md), west half; sections 29 to [32](/usc/16/32.md), inclusive. [Public lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=7)—Township 18 north, range 7 east, sections [5](/usc/16/5.md) to [9](/usc/16/9.md), inclusive; sections [13](/usc/16/13.md) to [23](/usc/16/23.md), inclusive; [section 24](/usc/16/24.md), north half north half; sections [26](/usc/16/26.md) to [36](/usc/16/36.md), inclusive; and those parts of sections [3](/usc/16/3.md), [4](/usc/16/4.md), 10, and [11](/usc/16/11.md) lying south and west of the Riva Road. The withdrawal of the lands herein authorized shall not affect withdrawals for national forest purposes made prior to June 7, 1924.


## Source credit

(June 7, 1924, ch. 326, § 1, 43 Stat. 634.)