---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 53"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "53"
heading: "Cutting and removal of timber"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/53"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter VI — Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks"
---

# §53. Cutting and removal of timber


All timber must be cut and removed from the Yosemite National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) 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) in consequence of the cutting and removal of the timber from the reservation shall be borne by the [owners](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) of the patented lands, and bond satisfactory to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior 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.


## Source credit

(Apr. 9, 1912, ch. 74, § 3, 37 Stat. 81.)