Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§554 Forest supervisors and rangers

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 3— - FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 554

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

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Title 16, §554

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Forest supervisors and rangers shall be selected, when practicable, from qualified citizens of the States or Territories in which the national forests, respectively, are situated.

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Codification “National forests” substituted in text for “reserves” on authority of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests.

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16 U.S.C. § 554

Title 16 — Conservation

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Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73