---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 580i"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "580i"
heading: "Acquisition of winter range, land, and helicopter landing site"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/580i"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §580i. Acquisition of winter range, land, and helicopter landing site


There are authorized to be appropriated—

- (a) such sums as may be necessary for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of parcels of land and interests in land in Sanders County, Montana, needed by the Forest Service to provide winter range for its saddle, pack, and draft animals;
- (b) not to exceed $50,000 for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of additional land adjacent to the present site of the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin; and
- (c) not to exceed $25,000 for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of one helicopter landing site in southern California.

Land acquired under this section may be subject to such reservations and outstanding interests as the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture determines will not interfere with the purpose for which acquired.


## Source credit

(Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, § 14, 64 Stat. 86.)