---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 163.12"
title: "25"
number: "163.12"
heading: "Harvesting restrictions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/163.12"
---

# §163.12. Harvesting restrictions.

- (a) Harvesting timber on commercial forest land will not be permitted unless provisions for natural and/or artificial reforestation of acceptable tree species is included in harvest plans.
- (b) Clearing of large contiguous areas will be permitted only on land that, when cleared, will be devoted to a more beneficial use than growing timber crops. This restriction shall not prohibit clearcutting when it is silviculturally appropriate, based on ecological principles, to harvest a particular stand of timber by such method and it otherwise conforms with objectives in [§ 163.3](/cfr/25/163.3.md) of this part.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 25 U.S.C. 2, 5, 9, 13, 406, 407, 413, 415, 466; and 3101-3120.

### Source

Source: 60 FR 52260, Oct. 5, 1995, unless otherwise noted.