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 Proclamations Proc. 7318 by Peter Skene Ogden in his 1827 exploration for the Hudson's Bay Com- pany. Section 2 of the Act of June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225, \1776 U.S.C. 43\177), author- izes the President, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation his- toric landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or con- trolled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments, and to reserve as a part thereof parcels of land, the limits of which in all cases shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected. WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public interest to reserve such lands as a national monument to be known as the Cascade-Siskiyou Na- tional Monument: NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by section 2 of the Act of June 8, \177906 (34 Stat. 225, \1776 U.S.C. 431), do proclaim that there are hereby set apart and reserved as the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, for the purpose of protecting the objects identified above, all lands and in- terests in lands owned or controlled by the United States within the bound- aries of the area described on the map entitled "Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument" attached to and forming a part of this proclamation. The Fed- eral land and interests in land reserved consist of approximately 52,000 acres, which is the smallest area compatible with the proper care and man- agement of the objects to be protected. All Federal lands and interests in lands within the boundaries of this monument are hereby appropriated and withdrawn from all forms of entry, location, selection, sale, or leasing or other disposition under the public land laws, including but not limited to withdrawal from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and from disposition under all laws re- lating to mineral and geothermal leasing, other than by exchange that fur- thers the protective purposes of the monument. There is hereby reserved, as of the date of this proclamation and subject to valid existing rights, a quantity of water sufficient to fulfill the purposes for which this monument is established. Nothing in this reservation shall be construed as a relinquishment or reduction of any water use or rights reserved or appropriated by the United States on or before the date of this proclamation. The commercial harvest of timber or other vegetative material is prohibited, except when part of an authorized science-based ecological restoration project aimed at meeting protection and old growth enhancement objec- tives. Any such project must be consistent with the purposes of this procla- mation. No portion of the monument shall be considered to be suited for timber production, and no part of the monument shall be used in a calcula- tion or provision of a sustained yield of timber. Removal of trees from within the monument area may take place only if clearly needed for eco- logical restoration and maintenance or public safety. For the purpose of protecting the objects identified above, the Secretary of the Interior shall prohibit all motorized and mechanized vehicle use off road and shall close the Schoheim Road, except for emergency or author- ized administrative purposes. 99

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