---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 583"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "583"
heading: "Establishment of sustained-yield units to stabilize forest industries, employment, communities and taxable wealth"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/583"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter IV — Sustained-Yield Forest Management"
---

# §583. Establishment of sustained-yield units to stabilize forest industries, employment, communities and taxable wealth


In order to promote the stability of forest industries, of employment, of communities, and of taxable forest wealth, through continuous supplies of timber; in order to provide for a continuous and ample supply of forest products; and in order to secure the benefits of forests in maintenance of water supply, regulation of stream flow, prevention of soil erosion, amelioration of climate, and preservation of wildlife, the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture and the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of the Interior are severally authorized to establish by formal declaration, when in their respective judgments such action would be in the public interest, cooperative sustained-yield [units](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) which shall consist of federally owned or administered forest land under the jurisdiction of the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) establishing the [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) and, in [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) thereto, land which reasonably may be expected to be made the subject of one or more of the cooperative agreements with private landowners authorized by [section 583a of this title](/usc/16/583a.md).


## Source credit

(Mar. 29, 1944, ch. 146, § 1, 58 Stat. 132.)