16 USC - Chapter 4 Protection of Timber, and Depredations - §591-620j.

This chapter lays down rules and regulations regarding protection of timber owned by United States from fire, disease, or insect ravages. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to protect and preserve, from fire, disease, or the ravages of beetles, or other insects, timber owned by the United States upon the public lands, national parks, national monuments, Indian reservations, or other lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior owned by the United States, either directly or in cooperation with other departments of the Federal Government, with States, or with owners of timber, and appropriations are authorized to be made for such purposes. If any timber cut on the public lands shall be exported from the Territories of the United States, it shall be liable to seizure by United States authority wherever found. Specifically, the chapter regulates the seizure of cut timber and disposition of moneys collected for depredations, cutting of timber on certain mineral lands and offenses and punishment for unlawful cutting on mineral lands, permits to corporations, railroad corporations, cutting and removal of timber on certain public lands for certain purposes, permits to cut and remove timber in Malheur County, Oregon, Modoc County, California, Washington County and Kane County, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, and Bear Lake Country Idaho, permits to cut and remove timber to certain corporations, limitations of use of timber taken not to apply to certain territory, restrictions on exports of unprocessed timber originating from Federal lands, limitations on substitution of unprocessed Federal timber for unprocessed timber exported from private lands, restriction on exports of unprocessed timber from State and other public lands, monitoring and enforcement, authorization of appropriations, savings provision, eastern hardwoods study, and authority of Export Administration Act of 1979. Separate stipulations are laid down regarding cutting, use and sale of timber in Alaska by settlers, residents, miners, etc, its appraisal, payments to Treasury, local consumption, exportation of timber pulp wood, wood pulp, timber cut on national forest or public land in Alaska, unprocessed timber from Federal lands, timber contract payment modification, and emergency stumpage rate redeterminations in Alaska.