---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 90e"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "90e"
heading: "Pasayten Wilderness, Okanogan and Mount Baker National Forests; designation; abolition of North Cascades Primitive Area classification"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/90e"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter X — North Cascades National Park"
---

# §90e. Pasayten Wilderness, Okanogan and Mount Baker National Forests; designation; abolition of North Cascades Primitive Area classification

- (a) In order to further the purposes of the Wilderness Act [[16 U.S.C. 1131](/usc/16/1131.md) et seq.], there is hereby designated, subject to valid existing rights, the Pasayten [Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) within and as a part of the Okanogan National Forest and the Mount Baker National Forest, comprising an [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) of about five hundred thousand acres lying east of Ross Lake, as generally depicted in the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) designated as “Pasayten [Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13)” on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) referred to in [section 90 of this title](/usc/16/90.md).
- (b) The previous classification of the North Cascades Primitive [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) is hereby abolished.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–544, title VI, § 601, Oct. 2, 1968, 82 Stat. 930.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Wilderness Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 88–577, Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 890, which is classified generally to chapter 23 (§ 1131 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1131 of this title and Tables.