JANUARY, 1932 
THE PRINCIPAL LAWS RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT AND 
ADMINISTRATION OF THE NATIONAL FORESTS AND 
TO OTHER FOREST SERVICE ACTIVITIES ” oe 
PREPARED BY THE ForEST SERVICE a=Sé TeV e@e 
CONTENTS 
Page Page 
Nstaplishment- 222 vo eth en eee It iiRorest activities ar! ee ee 19 
sini ole aia) NE ee ee 5 | Weeks law and amendments_______ 20 
Occupaney, andsusess2-. i Clarke-MeNary Act 22.2222 lee 24 
HISCAlesMaCleLS a ee 14 | McSweeney-McNary Act —~---______ 28 
ESTABLISHMENT 
Act March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. 1269) 
The forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests. 
Purpose of. 
Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 35) ; Sec. 475, Title 16, U. S. C. 
No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve 
and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of 
securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a con- 
tinuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the 
United States. 
Creation by proclamation. 
Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1103) ; Sec. 471, Title 16, U. S. C. 
Src. 24. That the President of the United States may, from time 
to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having pub- 
lic land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or 
in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial 
value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by 
public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations 
and the limits thereof. 
1In this compilation in general the exact wording of the statute is given, but in some 
instances the substance of the law rather than the exact language is stated. The paging 
in the citations refers to the page of the official statute on which the part of the statute 
cited may be found, except where the entire statute is intended to be cited, in which case 
the first page thereof is given. 
