---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 167"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "167"
heading: "Removal of timber"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/167"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XX — Glacier National Park"
---

# §167. Removal of timber


All timber on Government lands in the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) must be cut and removed under regulations to be prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, and any damage which may result to the roads or any part of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) or the national forests in consequence of the cutting and removal of the timber therefrom shall be borne by the [owners](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) of the patented lands, and bonds satisfactory to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior and the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture, jointly, must be given for the payment of such damages, if any, as shall be determined by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior so far as the same relates to lands within a national [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) and by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture where the same relates to lands in the national forests. The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture and the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall jointly report to Congress in detail the factors upon which valuations were made.


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1917, ch. 164, § 3, 39 Stat. 1122.)