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16 U.S.C. § 529

Authorization of development and administration consideration to relative values of resources; areas of wilderness

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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to develop and administer the renewable surface resources of the national forests for multiple use and sustained yield of the several products and services obtained therefrom. In the administration of the national forests due consideration shall be given to the relative values of the various resources in particular areas. The establishment and maintenance of areas of wilderness are consistent with the purposes and provisions of sections 528 to 531 of this title.

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Cited in 24 cases, 1969–2018 · leading case: Wyoming v. United States Dep't of Agric., 661 F.3d 1209 (10th Cir. 2011).
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Wyoming v. United States Dep't of Agric., 661 F.3d 1209 (10th Cir. 2011). · cites it 2× “Wyoming correctly states that MUSYA mandates that the Forest Service “develop and administer the renewable surface resources of the national forests for multiple use,” 16 U.S.C. § 529 , including “for outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish purposes,”…”
Reservation Ranch v. United States, 39 Fed. Cl. 696 (Fed. Cl. 1997). · cites it 3× “16 U.S.C. § 529 . The Forest Service implements this mandate pursuant to NFMA by preparing land and resource management plans for the forests which balance these competing values.”
Joshua Bohmker v. State of Oregon, 903 F.3d 1029 (9th Cir. 2018). “” 16 U.S.C. § 529 . After declaring it “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 Act states that “[n]othing herein shall be construed as…”
Minnesota Pub. Interest Rsch. Grp. & Sierra Club v. Earl v. Butz, Individually & as Sec'y of Agric.,appellants, 541 F.2d 1292 (8th Cir. 1976). “” 16 U.S.C. § 529 . In the Wilderness Act, Congress declared that nothing therein was to be construed to interfere with the purposes of the Multiple Use-Sustained Yield Act of 1960.”
Intermountain Forest Indus. Ass'n v. Lyng, 683 F. Supp. 1330 (D. Wyo. 1988). · cites it 2× “the management of all of the various renewable surface resources of the national forests so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the needs of the American people; making the most judicious use of the land for some or all of these resources .”
United States v. City of Challis, 988 P.2d 1199 (Idaho 1999). · cites it 2× “The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to develop and administer the renewable surface resources of the national forests for multiple use and sustained yield of the several products and services obtained therefrom. In the administration of the national forests…”
Wilderness Soc'y v. Alcock, 867 F. Supp. 1026 (N.D. Ga. 1994). “” 16 U.S.C. § 529 . Congress defined “multiple use” as [t]he management of all the various renewable surface resources of the national forests so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the needs of the American people; making the most judicious use of the…”
State of Cal. v. Bergland, 483 F. Supp. 465 (E.D. Cal. 1980). “” 16 U.S.C. § 529 . If the Forest Service cannot consider wilderness values, then it is required, in determining the uses of the national forests, to consider only the other allowable uses of the lands.”
Sierra Nevada Forest Prot. Campaign v. Rey, 573 F. Supp. 2d 1316 (E.D. Cal. 2008). “See 16 U.S.C. § 529 (directing Secretary of Agriculture to administer forest lands for multiple uses and sustained yield); Lands Council v.”
Schmitz Ex Rel. Schmitz v. United States, 796 F. Supp. 263 (W.D. Mich. 1992). · cites it 3× “16 U.S.C. § 529 (1982). Further, 16 U.S.C.”
United States v. Jesse, 744 P.2d 491 (Colo. 1987). “Nothing herein shall be construed so as to affect the use or administration of mineral resources of national forest lands or to affect the use or administration of Federal lands not within national forests.”
Parker v. United States, 309 F. Supp. 593 (D. Colo. 1970). · cites it 2× “1 Under the Multiple Use-Sustained Yield Act, 16 U. S.C. § 529, this authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to preserve wilderness was specifically recognized.”
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