---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 541"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "541"
heading: "Cascade Head Scenic-Research Area; establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/541"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Forests"
  - "Subchapter II — Scenic Areas"
---

# §541. Cascade Head Scenic-Research Area; establishment


In order to provide present and future generations with the use and enjoyment of certain ocean headlands, rivers, streams, estuaries, and forested [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), to insure the protection and encourage the study of significant [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) for research and scientific purposes, and to promote a more sensitive relationship between man and his adjacent environment, there is hereby established, subject to valid existing rights, the Cascade Head Scenic-Research [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) (hereinafter referred to as “the [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A)”) in the Siuslaw National Forest in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Oregon.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–535, § 1, Dec. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 1732.)