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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management

§ 562b. Forest experiment station in Pennsylvania

Statutory text

In order to determine and demonstrate the best methods for the growing, management, and protection of timber crops on forest lands and farm wood lots, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to establish and maintain a forest experiment station at such place or places as may be determined as most suitable by him, in cooperation with the State of Pennsylvania and with the neighboring States, and to conduct such silvicultural and other forest experiments and investigations as may be necessary, either independently or in cooperation with other organizations, institutions, or individuals, and to carry out the purposes of this section an appropriation in the amount of $30,000 is authorized.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 69–770 · 44 Stat. 840

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 562b

    (July 3, 1926, ch. 770, 44 Stat. 840.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 3, 1926, ch. 770, 44 Stat. 840.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(July 3, 1926, ch. 770, 44 Stat. 840.)

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