---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 562a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "562a"
heading: "Forest experiment station in Ohio and Mississippi Valleys"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/562a"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §562a. Forest experiment station in Ohio and Mississippi Valleys


The [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture is authorized to establish and maintain a forest experiment station in the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) of the Ohio Valley and central Mississippi Valley, at such a place or places as may be selected by him, and he is authorized and directed to conduct silvicultural, forest-fire, dendrological, and other experiments and investigations, independently or in cooperation with other branches of the Federal Government, and with [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r), universities, colleges, county and municipal agencies, associations, and individuals, to determine the best methods for the growing, management, and protection of timber crops on [forest lands](/usc/16/544.md?p=f) and farm wood lots. Such annual appropriations as may thereafter be necessary for its maintenance and operation are hereby authorized.


## Source credit

(July 3, 1926, ch. 767, §§ 1, 2, 44 Stat. 838.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

A provision authorizing an appropriation of $30,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, for establishment of the forest experiment station referred to in this section was omitted as executed.