16 U.S.C. § 528
Development and administration of renewable surface resources for multiple use and sustained yield of products and services; Congressional declaration of policy and purpose
It 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. The purposes of sections 528 to 531 of this title are declared to be supplemental to, but not in derogation of, the purposes for which the national forests were established as set forth in section 475 of this title. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the jurisdiction or responsibilities of the several States with respect to wildlife and fish on the national forests. Nothing herein shall be construed so as to affect the use or administration of the mineral resources of national forest lands or to affect the use or administration of Federal lands not within national forests.
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cases (4 in the last 5 years), 1965–2025 · leading case: Navajo Nation v. United States Forest Serv., 535 F.3d 1058 (9th Cir. 2008).
Navajo Nation v. United States Forest Serv., 535 F.3d 1058 (9th Cir. 2008). “" 16 U.S.C. § 528 . Additionally, the Forest Service must follow a number of other directives under federal laws and executive orders in administering the Coconino National Forest, including, but not limited to: NEPA; NHPA; the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ("ESA"), 16 U.”
United States v. New Mexico, 438 U.S. 696 (1978). “215 , 16 U. S. C. § 528 et seq. (1976 ed.), national forests could only be created "to insure favorable conditions of water flow and to furnish a continuous supply of timber" and not for the purposes upon which the United States was now basing its asserted reserved rights in a…”
Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council, 490 U.S. 332 (1989). “215 , 16 U. S. C. § 528 . See also 90 Stat. 2949 , 16 U.”
Wyoming v. United States Dep't of Agric., 661 F.3d 1209 (10th Cir. 2011). “” 16 U.S.C. § 528 . Congress directed the Forest Service to “mak[e] the most judicious use of the land for some or all of these resources,” and acknowledged “that some land will be used for less than all of the resources.”
The Lands Council v. McNair, 537 F.3d 981 (9th Cir. 2008). “See 16 U.S.C. § 528 (noting Congress’ policy that the National Forests are to be “administered for outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish purposes”).”
Mountain States Legal Found. v. Dan Glickman, Sec'y of Agric., 92 F.3d 1228 (D.C. Cir. 1996). “§§ 473-82 , 551, the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act (“MUSYA”), 16 U.S.C. §§ 528 et seq., and the Resources Planning Act as amended by the National Forest Man *1232 agement Act (“NFMA”), 16 U.”
Seattle Audubon Soc'y v. Lyons, 871 F. Supp. 1291 (W.D. Wash. 1994). “The Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 (“MUSY”), 16 U.S.C. § 528 et seq., declares “that the national forests are established and shall be administered for outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish purposes.”
Avondale Irrigation Dist. v. North Idaho Props., Inc., 577 P.2d 9 (Idaho 1978). “The United States also argues that the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960, 16 U.S.C. § 528 , ratifies these additional purposes recreation, aesthetics, and fish and wildlife preservation as being among the original purposes for the Creative and Organic Acts.”
Kurt Meister v. U.S. Dep't of Agric., 623 F.3d 363 (6th Cir. 2010). “Specifically, the Service notes that the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960, 16 U.S.C. § 528 , the Wilderness Act, 16 U.”
Ark Initiative v. Thomas Tidwell, 816 F.3d 119 (D.C. Cir. 2016). “The 1960 Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act, 16 U.S.C. §§ 528 et seq., adds “outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish purposes” to the list of the Service’s objectives for forest land management, id.”
United States v. City & Cnty. of Denver Ex Rel. Bd. of Water Commissioners, 656 P.2d 1 (Colo. 1982). “” 16 U.S.C. § 528 (1976). Section 528 makes it obvious that Congress intended to expand the purposes for which the national forests are administered.”
Nat'l Parks Conservation Ass'n v. United States Forest Serv., 177 F. Supp. 3d 1 (D.D.C. 2016). “In the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960, 16 U.S.C. § 528 et seq. —one of the “two venerable statutes [that] set forth the Forest Service’s management goals,” Montanans For Multiple Use , 568 F.”
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