[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR293.6]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
          CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 293--WILDERNESS--PRIMITIVE AREAS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 293.6  Commercial enterprises, roads, motor vehicles, motorized 
equipment, motorboats, aircraft, aircraft landing facilities, airdrops, 
structures, and 
          cutting of trees.

    Except as provided in the Wilderness Act, subsequent legislation 
establishing a particular Wilderness unit, or Secs. 294.2(b), 294.2(c), 
and 294.2(e), paragraphs (c) and (d) of this section, and Secs. 293.7, 
293.8, and 293.12 through 293.16, inclusive, and subject to existing 
rights, there shall be in National Forest Wilderness no commercial 
enterprises; no temporary or permanent roads; no aircraft landing 
strips; no heliports or helispots, no use of motor vehicles, motorized 
equipment, motorboats, or other forms of mechanical

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transport; no landing of aircraft; no dropping of materials, supplies, 
or persons from aircraft; no structures or installations; and no cutting 
of trees for nonwilderness purposes.
    (a) Mechanical transport, as herein used, shall include any 
contrivance which travels over ground, snow, or water on wheels, tracks, 
skids, or by floatation and is propelled by a nonliving power source 
contained or carried on or within the device.
    (b) Motorized equipment, as herein used, shall include any machine 
activated by a nonliving power source, except that small battery-
powered, hand-carried devices such as flashlights, shavers, and Geiger 
counters are not classed as motorized equipment.
    (c) The Chief, Forest Service, may authorize occupancy and use of 
National Forest land by officers, employees, agencies, or agents of the 
Federal, State, and county governments to carry out the purposes of the 
Wilderness Act and will prescribe conditions under which motorized 
equipment, mechanical transport, aircraft, aircraft landing strips, 
heliports, helispots, installations, or structures may be used, 
transported, or installed by the Forest Service and its agents and by 
other Federal, State, or county agencies or their agents, to meet the 
minimum requirements for authorized activities to protect and administer 
the Wilderness and its resources. The Chief may also prescribe the 
conditions under which such equipment, transport, aircraft, 
installations, or structures may be used in emergencies involving the 
health and safety of persons, damage to property, or other purposes.
    (d) The Chief, Forest Service, may permit, subject to such 
restrictions as he deems desirable, the landing of aircraft and the use 
of motorboats at places within any Wilderness where these uses were 
established prior to the date the Wilderness was designated by Congress 
as a unit of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The Chief may 
also permit the maintenance of aircraft landing strips, heliports, or 
helispots which existed when the Wilderness was designated by Congress 
as a unit of the National Wilderness Preservation System.