---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 693"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "693"
heading: "Game sanctuaries and refuges in Ouachita National Forest"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/693"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection"
---

# §693. Game sanctuaries and refuges in Ouachita National Forest


For the purpose of providing breeding places and for the protection and administration of game animals, birds, and fish, the President of the United States is authorized, upon the recommendation of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture, to establish by public proclamation certain specified [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) within the Ouachita National Forest as game sanctuaries and refuges.


## Source credit

(June 13, 1933, ch. 63, § 1, 48 Stat. 128.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Presidential Designation

Areas comprising the Ouachita National Wildlife Preserve, formerly known as the Muddy Creek Refuge, were designated by Proclamations of Mar. 8, 1935 (49 Stat. 3439), and Oct. 29, 1938 (53 Stat. 2495).