§38 Exchange for State or Private Lands Authorized

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture may accept private or State land in the Montana townships described in section 37 for the United States. In return, the Secretary may give up to an equal value of surveyed, nonmineral national forest land in Montana, or allow the giver to cut and remove up to an equal value of timber from those national forests. The Secretary sets the values. Before any exchange happens, a notice listing the lands must be published once each week for four successive weeks in a general-circulation newspaper in the county or counties where the lands to be accepted are located and in a similar paper where any lands or timber to be given are located. Timber taken must be cut and removed under national forest laws and rules and under the Secretary’s direction and supervision.