---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 695n"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "695n"
heading: "Leases of Lower Klamath and Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge reserved lands; management of other reserved public lands for waterfowl purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/695n"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection"
---

# §695n. Leases of Lower Klamath and Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge reserved lands; management of other reserved public lands for waterfowl purposes


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall, consistent with proper waterfowl management, continue the present pattern of leasing the reserved lands of the Klamath Straits [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4), the Southwest Sump, the League of Nations [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4), the Henzel lease, and the Frog Pond [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4), all within the Executive order boundaries of the Lower Klamath and Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuges and shown in plate 4 of the report entitled “Plan for Wildlife Use of [Federal Lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=2) in the Upper Klamath Basin, Oregon-California,” dated April 1956. Leases for these lands shall be at a price or prices designed to obtain the maximum lease revenues. The leases shall provide for the growing of grain, forage, and soil-building crops, except that not more than 25 per centum of the total leased lands may be planted to row crops. All other reserved [public lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=7) included in [section 695l](/usc/16/695l.md) of this title shall continue to be managed by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) for waterfowl purposes, including the growing of agricultural crops by direct planting and sharecrop agreements with local cooperators where necessary.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–567, § 4, Sept. 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 851.)