§ 475. — Purposes for which national forests may be established and administered.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC475]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
Sec. 475. Purposes for which national forests may be established
and administered
All public lands designated and reserved prior to June 4, 1897, by
the President of the United States under the provisions of section 471
\1\ of this title, the orders for which shall be and remain in full
force and effect, unsuspended and unrevoked, and all public lands that
may hereafter be set aside and reserved as national forests under said
section, shall be as far as practicable controlled and administered in
accordance with the following provisions. No national forest shall be
established, except to improve and protect the forest within the
boundaries, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water
flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and
necessities of citizens of the United States; but it is not the purpose
or intent of these provisions, or of said section, to authorize the
inclusion therein of lands more valuable for the mineral therein, or for
agricultural purposes, than for forest purposes.
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\1\ See References in Text note below.
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(June 4, 1897, ch. 2, Sec. 1, 30 Stat. 34.)
References in Text
Section 471 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub.
L. 94-579, title VII, Sec. 704(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792.
Codification
``National forests'' and ``national forest'' substituted in text for
``public forest reserves'' and ``public forest reservation'',
respectively, on authority of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269,
which provided that forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national
forests.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 478, 482, 528, 551 of this
title; title 43 section 315.
