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§487a Cutting Timber on Lands Added to Rogue River National Forest

Title 16 › CHAPTER 2 — NATIONAL FORESTS › SUBCHAPTER I — ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION › § 487a

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture may allow cutting sellable timber from lands added to the Rogue River National Forest by the Act of June 4, 1936 (chapter 494, sec. 1, 49 Stat. 1460) if the cutting will not harm the water supply and the lands’ title was returned to the United States by the Act of June 9, 1916 (39 Stat. 218). Sales must follow the Forest Service rules, and all money from the sales must go into the U.S. Treasury special account called "The Oregon and California Land Grant Fund" (see section 10 of the June 9, 1916 Act) and be used as that Act directs.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §487a

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When the Secretary of Agriculture finds that merchantable timber may be cut without detriment to the purity or depletion of the water supply from lands added to the Rogue River National Forest by Act of June 4, 1936, chapter 494, section 1, 49 Stat. 1460, title to which has been revested in the United States under the Act of Congress approved June 9, 1916 (39 Stat. 218), said Secretary is authorized to dispose of such merchantable timber on such lands in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture for the national forests and the entire proceeds of any such sale shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States in a special fund designated “The Oregon and California Land Grant Fund”, referred to in section 10 of the said Act of June 9, 1916, and be disposed of in the manner therein designated.

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Act of
June 4, 1936, chapter 494, section 1, 49 Stat. 1460, referred to in text, related to exchanges of lands in or adjacent to Rogue River National Forest and was not classified to the Code. See Codification note set out under sections 486a to 486w of this title. Act of Congress approved
June 9, 1916, referred to in text, was not classified to the Code.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 487a

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102