---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 54"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "54"
heading: "Sale of matured, dead, or down timber"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/54"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter VI — Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks"
---

# §54. Sale of matured, dead, or down timber


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior may sell and permit the removal of such matured or dead or down timber as he may deem necessary or advisable for the protection or improvement of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), and the proceeds derived therefrom shall be deposited and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.


## Source credit

(Apr. 9, 1912, ch. 74, § 4, 37 Stat. 81.)