---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 681"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "681"
heading: "Erection of fence by South Dakota for game animal and bird refuge"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/681"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection"
---

# §681. Erection of fence by South Dakota for game animal and bird refuge


The [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of South Dakota is authorized and permitted to erect and maintain a good, substantial fence inclosing in whole or in part such [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) as may be designated and set aside by the President under the authority of [section 680 of this title](/usc/16/680.md). The [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) shall erect and maintain such gates in this fence as may be required by the authorized agents of the Federal Government in the administration of the National [forest lands](/usc/16/544.md?p=f) embraced therein, or to provide ingress and egress to [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) occupying lands within said inclosure. The right of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) to maintain said fence shall continue so long as the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) designated by the President shall be given protection by the laws of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of South Dakota as a game refuge.


## Source credit

(June 7, 1924, ch. 326, § 2, 43 Stat. 634.)