[Title 25 CFR 265]
[Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition) - April 1, 2004 Edition]
[Title 25 - INDIANS]
[Chapter I - BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR]
[Subchapter L - HERITAGE PRESERVATION]
[Part 265 - ESTABLISHMENT OF ROADLESS AND WILD AREAS ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


25INDIANS12004-04-012004-04-01false265PART 265INDIANSBUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORHERITAGE PRESERVATION
PART 265_ESTABLISHMENT OF ROADLESS AND WILD AREAS ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS
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Sec.
265.1 Definition of roadless area.
265.3 Roads prohibited.

    Cross Reference: For general regulations pertaining to the 
construction of roads, see part 170 of this chapter.



Sec. 265.1  Definition of roadless area.

    A roadless area has been defined as one which contains no provision 
for the passage of motorized transportation and which is at least 
100,000 acres in extent. Under this definition the Secretary of the 
Interior ordered (3 FR 609, Mar. 22, 1938) certain roadless areas 
established on Indian reservations. The following is the only presently 
existing roadless area:

Name of area--Wind River Reserve.
Reservation--Shoshone.
State--Wyoming.
Approximate acreage--180,387

    (a) The boundaries of the Wind River Reserve roadless area are as 
follows:

                        Wind River Meridian, Wyo.

    Starting at the SW corner of sec. 22, T. 2 S., R. 3 W., on the south 
boundary of the Wind River Indian Reservation, thence north six (6) 
miles to the NE corner of sec. 28, T. 1 S., R. 3 W., thence west three 
(3) miles to the SW corner of sec. 19, T. 1 S., R. 3 W., thence north 
four (4) miles along range line to the Wind River Base Line, thence west 
one (1) mile along Wind River Base Line to the SW corner of Sec. 36, T. 
1 N., R. 4 W., thence north six (6) miles to the NW corner of sec. 1, T. 
1 N., R. 4 W., thence west five (5) miles along township line to the NE 
corner of sec. 1, T. 1 N., R. 5 W., thence north four and one-half (4\1/
2\) miles along range line to the NE corner of the SE \1/4\ of sec. 12, 
T. 2 N., R. 5 W., thence west one and one-half (1\1/2\) miles to the 
center of sec. 11, T. 2 N., R. 5 W., thence on a straight line in a 
northwesterly direction to the top of Bold Mountain, thence on a 
straight line to the SE corner of sec. 35, T. 4 N., R. 6 W., thence west 
one (1) mile along township line to the SW corner of sec. 35, T. 4 N., 
R. 6 W., thence north two (2) miles to the NW corner of sec. 26, T. 4 
N., R. 6 W., thence on a straight line in a northwesterly direction to 
the point where the north line of sec. 15, T. 4 N., R. 6 W. intersects 
the west boundary of the reservation, thence south, southeasterly and 
east along the reservation boundary to point of beginning.

(5 U.S.C. 301)

[30 FR 9813, Aug. 6, 1965. Redesignated at 47 FR 13327, Mar. 30, 1982]



Sec. 265.3  Roads prohibited.

    (a) Within the boundaries of this officially designated roadless 
area it will be the policy of the Interior Department to refuse consent 
to the construction or establishment of any routes passable to motor 
transportation, including in this restriction highways, roads, truck 
trails, work roads, and all other types of ways constructed to make 
possible the passage of motor vehicles either for transportation of 
people or for the hauling of supplies and equipment, unless the 
requirements of fire protection, commercial use for the Indians' benefit 
or actual needs of the Indians clearly demand otherwise.
    (b) Foot trails and horse trails are not barred. The Superintendent 
of the Wind River Reservation on which this roadless area has been 
established will be held strictly accountable for seeing that the area 
is maintained in a roadless condition. Elimination of this area or any 
part thereof from the restriction of this order will be made only upon a 
written showing of an actual and controlling need.

(5 U.S.C. 301)

[30 FR 9814, Aug. 6, 1965. Redesignated at 47 FR 13327, Mar. 30, 1982]

    Cross Reference: For rights-of-way for highways over Indian lands, 
see part 169 of this chapter.

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