All public lands designated and reserved prior to June 4, 1897, by the President of the United States under the provisions of section 471 11 See References in Text note below. 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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The Lands Council v. McNair, 537 F.3d 981 (9th Cir. 2008).
“§ § 528-31, which states that “[i]t is the policy of the Congress that the national forests are established and shall be administered for outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish purposes.”
Sierra Club v. Hardin, 325 F. Supp. 99 (D. Alaska 1971).
· cites it 7× “The timber sale violates 16 U.S. C.A. § 475 (1960), which limits the purposes for which national forests shall be established and administered, in that the major purpose of the sale is to establish a new industrial enterprise, a substantial portion of the production of which…”
Montanans for Multiple Use v. Barbouletos, 568 F.3d 225 (D.C. Cir. 2009).
· cites it 2× “Two venerable statutes set forth the Forest Service’s management goals: the Organic Administration Act of 1897, 16 U.S.C. § 475 , and the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960, 16 U.”
United States v. City & Cnty. of Denver Ex Rel. Bd. of Water Commissioners, 656 P.2d 1 (Colo. 1982).
· cites it 3× “Section 481 of the Organic Act of 1897, 16 U.S.C. §§ 475 et seq. (1976) provides: “All waters within the boundaries of national forests may be used for domestic, mining, milling, or irrigation purposes, under the laws of the State wherein such national forests are situated, or…”
Wyoming v. United States Dep't of Agric., 277 F. Supp. 2d 1197 (D. Wyo. 2003).
· cites it 2× “See 16 U.S.C. § 475 . That multiple-use mandate provides that National Forests may be established and administered to improve and protect the forest within its boundaries and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of Americans.”
Wyoming v. United States Dep't of Agric., 661 F.3d 1209 (10th Cir. 2011).
“” 16 U.S.C. § 475 . The Act authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to “make provisions for the protection against destruction by fire and depredations upon the public forests and national forests,” in order “to regulate their occupancy and use and to preserve the forests…”
Jerome Otteson v. United States, 622 F.2d 516 (10th Cir. 1980).
“Title 16 U.S.C. § 475 established the purposes for which national forests may be established and administered: “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…”
Minard Run Oil Co. v. United States Forest Serv., 670 F.3d 236 (3rd Cir. 2011).
“11 , 34, codified at 16 U.S.C. § 475 . These Acts, however, did not authorize the purchase of land to establish federal forest reservations — they were limited to land already owned by the federal government or acquired for other purposes.”
Wilderness Soc'y v. Alcock, 867 F. Supp. 1026 (N.D. Ga. 1994).
· cites it 2× “” 16 U.S.C. § 475 . In the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960, 16 U.”
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