Act of March 3, 1925 (43 Stat 1215) ; sec. 516, title 16, U. S. C. 



Provided further, That with the approval of the National Forest 

 Reservation Commission as provided by sections 6 and 7 of this act, 

 and when the public interests will be benefited thereby, the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture be, and hereby is, authorized, in his discretion, 

 to accept on behalf of the United States title to any lands within 

 the exterior boundaries of national forests acquired under this act 

 which, in his opinion, are chiefly valuable for the purposes of this 

 act, and in exchange therefor to convey by deed not to exceed an 

 equal value of such national forest land in the same State, or he 

 may authorize the grantor to cut and remove an equal value of 

 timber within such national forests in the same State, the values 

 in each case to be determined by him: And provided further, That 

 before any such exchange is effected notice of the contemplated 

 exchange reciting the lands involved shall be published once each 

 week for four successive weeks in some newspaper of general circu- 

 lation in the county or counties in which may be situated the lands 

 to be accepted, and in some like newspaper published in any county 

 in which may be situated any lands or timber to be given in such 

 exchange. Timber given in such exchanges shall be cut and removed 

 under the laws and regulations relating to such national forests, 

 and under the direction and supervision and in accordance with the 

 requirements of the Secretary of Agriculture. Lands so accepted by 

 the Secretary of Agriculture shall, upon acceptance, become parts of 

 the national forests within whose exterior boundaries they are located, 

 and be subject to all the provisions of this act. 



Cooperation with States— Fulmer Act. 



Act of August 29, 1935 (49 Stat. 963) ; sec. 567, title 16, U. S. C. 



To authorize cooperation with the several States for the purpose of stimulating 

 the acquisition, development, and proper administration and management of 

 State forests and coordinating Federal and State activities in carrying out a 

 national program of forest-land management, and for other purposes. 



That for the purpose of stimulating the acquisition, development, 

 and proper administration and management of State forests and ot 

 insuring coordinated effort by Federal and State agencies in carrying 

 out a comprehensive national program of forest-land management, 

 the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to enter into coop- 

 erative agreements with appropriate officials of any State or States 

 for acquiring in the name of the United States, by purchase or other- 

 wise, such forest lands within the cooperating State as in his judg- 

 ment the State is adequately prepared to administer, develop, and 

 manage as State forests in accordance with the provisions of this Act 

 and with such other terms not inconsistent therewith as he shall pre- 

 scribe, such acquisition to include the mapping, examination, ap- 

 praisal, and surveying of such lands and the doing of all things nec- 

 essary to perfect title thereto in the United States: Provided, That, 

 since it is the declared policy of Congress to maintain and, where it is 

 in the national interest to extend the national-forest system, nothing 

 herein shall be construed to modify, limit, or change in any manner 

 whatsoever the future owership and administration by the United 



