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

# §562b. Forest experiment station in Pennsylvania


In order to determine and demonstrate 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, the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture is authorized and directed to establish and maintain a forest experiment station at such place or places as may be determined as most suitable by him, in cooperation with the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Pennsylvania and with the neighboring [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r), and to conduct such silvicultural and other forest experiments and investigations as may be necessary, either independently or in cooperation with other organizations, institutions, or individuals, and to carry out the purposes of this section an appropriation in the amount of $30,000 is authorized.


## Source credit

(July 3, 1926, ch. 770, 44 Stat. 840.)