---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 554"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "554"
heading: "Forest supervisors and rangers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/554"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §554. Forest supervisors and rangers


Forest supervisors and rangers shall be selected, when practicable, from qualified citizens of the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) or Territories in which the national forests, respectively, are situated.


## Source credit

(Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, § 3, 33 Stat. 628.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

“National forests” substituted in text for “reserves” on authority of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests.