§ 167. — Removal of timber.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC167]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XX--GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 167. Removal of timber
All timber on Government lands in the park must be cut and removed
under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and
any damage which may result to the roads or any part of the park or the
national forests in consequence of the cutting and removal of the timber
therefrom shall be borne by the owners of the patented lands, and bonds
satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of
Agriculture, jointly, must be given for the payment of such damages, if
any, as shall be determined by the Secretary of the Interior so far as
the same relates to lands within a national park and by the Secretary of
Agriculture where the same relates to lands in the national forests. The
Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior shall jointly
report to Congress in detail the factors upon which valuations were
made.
(Mar. 3, 1917, ch. 164, Sec. 3, 39 Stat. 1122.)
