Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§583 Establishment of sustained-yield units to stabilize forest industries, employment, communities and taxable wealth

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 3— - FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - SUSTAINED-YIELD FOREST MANAGEMENT › § 583

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior can create cooperative "sustained-yield units" when they think it is in the public interest. The goal is to keep forest industries, jobs, communities, and forest tax values stable by ensuring steady timber and forest products and protecting water, stream flow, soil, climate, and wildlife. Each unit will include federal forest land the Secretary controls and nearby private land that is likely to join under cooperative agreements allowed under section 583a.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §583

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In order to promote the stability of forest industries, of employment, of communities, and of taxable forest wealth, through continuous supplies of timber; in order to provide for a continuous and ample supply of forest products; and in order to secure the benefits of forests in maintenance of water supply, regulation of stream flow, prevention of soil erosion, amelioration of climate, and preservation of wildlife, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior are severally authorized to establish by formal declaration, when in their respective judgments such action would be in the public interest, cooperative sustained-yield units which shall consist of federally owned or administered forest land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary establishing the unit and, in addition thereto, land which reasonably may be expected to be made the subject of one or more of the cooperative agreements with private landowners authorized by section 583a of this title.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 583

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73